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...after the GAO released its report, Iraq's parliament adopted a $21 billion 2008 supplementary budget...
...funneled into offshore bank accounts on Grand Cayman Island or in the Bahamas. Alluding to President Reagan's controversial comparison of the contras to America's founders, Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds quipped, ''Our Founding Fathers did not maintain bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.'' The GAO investigation also found that some $743,000 in contra aid went to an unnamed Central American army and that the force's former commander in chief was paid $450,000 earlier this year. Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes identified the army as Honduras' and the commander in chief as General Walter Lopez Reyes. Secretary...
...More than 10,000 troops and close to 100,000 volunteers have been deployed to battle the algae, says Gao Zhenhui, director of the State Oceanic Administration's North China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center in Qingdao. "At first we didn't realize how big it would be," Gao says. "We didn't think it would happen so fast." Last June, Qingdao saw an algae blooms that covered 27 square miles, and a second one in September covered three square miles. But those are dwarfed by the current algae bloom, which covers 154 square miles...
...Once we saw how big it was we decided to organize the troops and the cleaning teams," Gao says...
...Algae-filled waters of Qingdao wouldn't mark the first time that debris-strewn seas have plagued Olympic water sports. Windsurfers complained of seaweed and pollution before the Barcelona Games in 1992. Still, Qingdao's green waters have triggered a massive official response. Gao says the cleaning teams have used boats to pull 100,000 tons of the seaweed from the water. Nets have been extended 40 to 50 miles into the ocean to contain the inflow, and four helicopters have been dispatched to direct clean-up boats. At the environmental monitoring center, employees have been working around the clock...