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Bath, 55, acknowledges a friendship with George W. Bush that stems from their service together in the Texas Air National Guard, and says he is "slightly" acquainted with the President. But Bath vehemently denies White's accusations. "I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency," he says, describing White's portrayal as a "fantasy." Even so, Bath, while insisting he is nothing more than a "small, obscure businessman," is associated with some of the most powerful figures in the U.S. and Middle East. Private records show, and associates confirm, that Bath is a "representative...
...with Southside smoking his way through 11 smash tunes, mostly written by Little Steven Van Zandt, and holding his own with some heavy company, including Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. When Springsteen joins Johnny and Little Steven to sing It's Been a Long Time, you can hear friendship recalled and solidified -- and a touch of history being made...
...wrong signals, led him along. At first you try to pretend it didn't happen. You may do what I once did and keep lifting his hand off your knee as if it were some object that happened to fall there. You may even maintain the fiction of friendship for years, because anything is better than being demoted, in your own mind, to a deletable four-letter word...
...organizations had a strong human link as well, grounded in the friendship between B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi and Bank of America's A.W. (Tom) Clausen, who was chairman during 1970-81 and 1986-90. When regulators seized B.C.C.I. offices around the world last July, three of the seven directors on its board were former high-ranking Bank of America executives. On that same day, the California bank disclosed that it still had $177.4 million of B.C.C.I.'s money in its accounts...
...question of economic aid strains the U.S.-Israeli friendship...