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...reception he got in the Sunshine State could have been a bit warmer. After extolling Cheney as "one of the most effective Vice Presidents in the history of the U.S.," Keller launched into all the times he had recently opposed the Bush Administration, including the deal to allow a Dubai company to manage operations at several U.S. ports. And then Keller went right for the punch line: "'Don't be too hasty,'" he claimed the Vice President had pleaded with him. "'Let's go hunting. We'll talk about...
Columnist Joe Klein's "It's Economic Security, Stupid" [March 13] hit the nail on the head. The U.S. response to the now defunct Dubai Ports deal was a global public relations nightmare. Although I agree with Klein that a "drastically revised social safety net for American workers" would ease the collective American insecurities and provide a more rational and less emotional view of the growing global economy, I don't see that becoming a reality anytime soon. Universal health insurance and government-subsidized pensions smack of socialism and would inevitably draw protest, even from those who would benefit most...
Klein says if we give middle-income Americans "economic security" in the form of government-run health care, "they might be willing to look at the rest of the world--and controversies like the Dubai Ports deal--less emotionally." It is a stretch to think that government-run health care would be satisfactory, and it would in no way affect the public's opinion toward foreign investment...
...Except for the controversial Dubai ports deal, the Administration's diplomatic measures have typically received a warm welcome from Congressional Republicans. But over the past two weeks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her undersecretary who negotiated the nuclear cooperation deal, Nicholas Burns, have been treated like used-car dealers, with wary legislative customers insisting on kicking the tires and checking under the hood before they buy what the two are selling. When Rice had a private meeting with International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde on March 9, the longtime Illinois representative said that as a courtesy he would introduce...
...Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose family controlled Shin Corp. In France, an effort by the Italian gas company Enel to acquire Groupe Suez appears to have been thwarted by a hastily arranged, government-sponsored marriage between Suez and Gaz de France. The very idea that a state-owned company from Dubai might take over P&O, a British company that controlled six ports in the U.S., gave most members of Congress an attack of the vapors; Dubai Ports World has now said that it will sell P&O's U.S. assets to an American buyer. Even in Britain, where the economy...