Word: czars
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...Maroni promises the government will sign an emergency decree this week, reportedly set to dole out €120 million to Alitalia and Italy 's smaller carriers this year. That would keep the flagship airline afloat and avert disastrous labor strife. But even if the bailout gets past E.U. competition czar Mario Monti, there's a more far-reaching conundrum. Analysts say Alitalia's long-term survival requires further privatization and a merger with another major airline. But Alitalia is in no shape to merge. A Europe-based manager of a U.S. airline scoffs at Italy 's latest plan, which foresees...
...Qaeda threat in the run-up to the attacks. It is certainly extremely important to understand whether more could have been done to protect us. But the furor over the allegations by Richard Clarke have framed the question facing the public as simply whether you believe the former terrorism czar's charge that the Bush team took its eye off the ball, or whether you accept the administration's account of Clarke as a disgruntled former employee trying to get back at those who overlooked his self-imagined importance. The debate over Clarke's claims asks no questions about...
...Bush administration critics will continue to agree with former terrorism czar Richard Clarke's claim that the administration's limited focus on Iraq got in the way of an effective campaign against al-Qaeda immediately after 9/11 - a criticism amplified in hindsight by the extent to which the Iraq invasion has boosted rather than undermined support in the Muslim world for Osama bin Laden's movement...
What did the president know, and when did he know it? Oh, and what did he do to stop it? Washington buzzed with these questions last week as the Bush administration defended itself against charges from its erstwhile counter-terrorism czar, Richard A. Clarke, that it did not do all it could have to avert the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Amidst this brouhaha, an ominous portent of further and more deadly attacks upon American soil went virtually unnoticed. The North Korean regime of Kim Jong Il, through its mouthpiece Radio Pyongyang, explicitly rejected America’s demand...
...terrorism czar get all 25 European Union nations working from the same antiterrorism playbook? Gijs de Vries will soon find out. The U.S.-born Dutch Liberal was named last week as the E.U.'s first Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, charged in part with getting Europe's security services to work together in their campaign against terrorism. De Vries, 48, isn't the obvious choice. He spent four years, from 1998 to 2002, as Dutch Deputy Interior Minister. He has since served as the Dutch representative to the convention drafting the E.U. constitution. De Vries is well known as a defender...