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...Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike piled the bad news on FDA Commissioner Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach-asserting that a plan to close 7 of the FDA's 13 labs would further weaken an already impotent agency that has very little power to preemptively halt contaminated food from entering the country...
...Nevertheless, six pounds of choice Maine lobster and two weekends later, Putin delivered on a long-promised threat. Early Saturday morning, the Kremlin abruptly announced Putin's decree to halt Russia's participation in the CFE treaty due to "extraordinary circumstances ... which affect the security of the Russian Federation and require immediate measures...
...Within hours of the Kremlin's announcement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia will halt inspections and verifications of its military sites by NATO countries and will no longer limit the number of its conventional weapons. Russia, however, had already halted such verification visits after a CFE treaty conference held in Vienna last month turned a deaf ear to Russia's complaints; military delegations from Bulgaria and Hungary had been denied entry to Russian military units. Also last month, Russia turned down an invitation to take part in joint exercises with the U.S., Romania and Bulgaria. General Vladimir Shamanov...
When Britain's law enforcement authorities began probing allegations that the leading British arms manufacturer had paid bribes to a senior Saudi official, then Prime Minister Tony Blair called a halt to the probe. Its continuation, he warned, would jeopardize British national interests. But the same allegations have resurfaced at the center of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, with potentially explosive consequences...
...with the $85 billion al-Yamamah weapons-for-oil deal under which BAE agreed, in 1985, to supply Tornado jets and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia. But it was many years before Britain's Serious Fraud Office began to investigate, and its inquiry was brought to an abrupt halt by the Blair government in December 2006. The stated reason - that the probe could cost British jobs and imperil important ties - carried the obvious implication was that Britain could not afford allow awkward truths about BAE conduct to become public, presumably because of the anticipated reaction of the Saudis...