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...Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says Australia has been extremely generous. "We agreed to give East Timor 90% [of the JPDA] ? and now we are told that we are thieves and cheats," he says. "They obviously don't regard the relationship with Australia as highly as I thought." In the past four years, the country has spent $170 million on aid and development; Canberra sent 5,700 troops and led the U.N.'s INTERFET force in 1999 after East Timor's vote for nationhood triggered a killing spree by pro-Indonesian militias...
...funny to think back to 1996, when Howard won office. The first Howard ministry was a bunch of no-names; after 13 years of Labor rule, today's big guns, like Costello, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, had no ministerial experience. But the conservatives have put their stamp on the country, improved their party organization and employed the privileges of office to keep themselves in power. Howard became P.M. with a huge parliamentary majority; implementing his convictions - tax and industrial-relations reform, tougher gun laws and cultural realignment - cost him some of his electoral buffer...
...DIET INC. DOWNER...
...important because it gave us the opportunity to feel sharp,” Whitman said. “Losing to Trinity is a downer and this is a good opportunity to remind ourselves we’re good squash players. Whether [Williams] is a good team or a bad team, it was good to have this match this quick after Trinity...
...Washington State on Dec. 23. Though officials say the cow entered from Canada in 2001, the USDA last week instituted a series of measures to reassure consumers that American beef is safe, including a ban on the slaughter of cattle too sick or injured to walk, called downers, for human food. The BSE-infected cow was one such downer. The USDA also called for immediate implementation of a national animal-tracking system so the source of any diseased cattle could be more readily identified...