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...their loud objections to military action, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey and Iran have a huge incentive to influence the nature of any post-Saddam regime. But they're issuing increasingly shrill warnings against a U.S. attack while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains dangerously volatile. Jordan's King Abdullah, en route to Washington on Tuesday, called the idea of attacking Iraq under present circumstances "ludicrous." Although they may have convinced themselves that ousting Saddam would allow the U.S. to reorder the Middle East on its own terms, the Bush team's hawks may yet find themselves compelled to reconsider their...
Some were just passing through, en route to Indonesia, Yemen and the Arabian Gulf. According to diplomats, a few al-Qaeda fugitives may have been given money and transport to get out of Pakistan by sympathetic staff at an Arab consulate in Karachi. Bangladeshi intelligence sources say that in the same month, a Saudi-owned vessel smuggled 150 al-Qaeda and Taliban members out of Karachi to the Bangladeshi port of Chittagong...
Summers told students of a 1997 visit he took to Côte d’Ivoire, where en route to a traditional local ceremony, he took a cell phone call from then-Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin ’60 while in the middle of a lagoon. He said this experience highlighted how technology can bring people around the world closer together...
...coughed up a first installment of €460 to them. Batt wants it back, denies any intellectual infringement and says, "I'm not backing down and neither are they." The rare good humor of the spat - consecutive perfomances of both "silences" were staged last week in London - could evaporate en route to court; if Clas-sical Graffiti sells as Batt hopes, the final bill could be €150,000. Both sides might care to ponder Cage's own observation that, "the very practice of music ... is a celebration that we own nothing." THE BOURSE The Steel Deal Anglo-Dutch steelmaker...
...that Stewart sold her nearly 4,000 shares. What has caught the attention of investigators is that on Dec. 27, Stewart was traveling with Pasternak's estranged wife Mariana, a real estate broker. While she and Stewart were on the ground in San Antonio, Texas, en route to Mexico on Stewart's private jet, Stewart phoned Bacanovic to sell her shares and then tried to reach Waksal. Investigators are trying to learn whether Mariana Pasternak had contact that day with her husband, also a friend of Waksal's. Neither of the Pasternaks returned calls...