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...into Washington's honey jar, coming away with $100 million in military aid and substantial additions to her depleted arsenal. Her country has largely been cut off from military assistance since Manila kicked the U.S. out of its two major South Asian bases in 1991. The Bush Administration was eager to regain a military foothold there. Last November, when Arroyo visited Washington, the President offered to send U.S. combat troops to join the Abu Sayyaf chase--despite a clause in the Philippine constitution prohibiting foreigners from fighting on the nation's soil. But a visiting-forces agreement signed...
...domestic oil and natural-gas output. The provision was significant because Enron has a controversial $2.9 billion natural-gas-fired Dabhol power plant in India, but the plant's only customer, the state of Maharashtra, found Enron's prices too high and began buying power elsewhere. Enron was eager to get out of the Dabhol investment or get the facility back on line and had sought Washington's help. Cheney met with Lay on April 17, exactly one month before the final energy proposals were unveiled. Waxman asked Cheney in a letter late last week to explain how the provision...
...Democratic show in the Senate. He'll be trying to stay centrist with fellow Democrat Carl Levin on his left and Fred Thompson on his right - and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen and $2,000 from Enron since 1989 in his pocket. In the House, the Republicans are eager to show they can be tough on Big Business too - James Greenwood, chairman of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee (a wholly owned subsidiary of Billy Tauzin's Energy and Commerce committee). Cheney nemesis Henry Waxman and John Dingell will be barking over GOP shoulders on behalf of the minority party...
...American Airlines plane by igniting explosives in his sneakers, was ripe for recruitment. He converted to Islam in 1995 while serving time for petty theft. Unlike Moussaoui, though, he was not a committed hard-liner when he arrived at the Brixton Mosque the following year. Over time the amiable, eager-to-learn Reid become more extremist and argumentative. He was not seen for a while, according to mosque chairman Abdul Haqq Baker, and when he returned he wore military fatigues and talked about jihad. Moussaoui and Reid, who probably met at the Brixton Mosque, both drifted away in l998, Reid...
...there were plenty of long lines. In France, motorways backed up as drivers eager to break their francs into euro-change skipped the credit card and electronic "smart-pass" lanes and flooded tollbooths. Meanwhile, some small shopkeepers have resisted government urgings to get the old currency out of the system by giving euros in change for deutsche marks, francs or pesetas. "I am not a bank," gripes a vegetable seller at the Place d'Aligre outdoor market in Paris...