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Following Jospin's loss and immediate retirement from politics, Socialist Party leader François Hollande has led the search for lessons amid the ruins of the election. During their summer congress in La Rochelle, Socialist leaders issued a mea culpa, resisting efforts by some officials to lay all the blame on Jospin. Party members gave a sour reception to former cabinet member Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, whose recent book My Own Inventory not only found Jospin's government too market-smitten and his election campaign muddled, but also denigrated him as "not quite having what it takes...
...People can try to blame Bush for failing to act, but history will lay the intelligence blunders at Clinton's feet, where they belong." NOLA LEAHY Coto de Caza, Calif...
...understands how it works on the way down." In other words, although Farah says Polo Ralph Lauren plans to move some of its production from Asia to independent European factories, why take the risk of hiring lots of workers, who are more expensive in Europe and hard to lay off? Says Farah: "It's not at the core of how we want to operate...
...each for damages inflicted by Unit 731. The government has long denied evidence of such crimes. But the judge declared that "The deployment of biological weapons was a strategic part of Japan's war plans and was carried out under orders from the central army." Unit 731 lay at the heart of these atrocities: Iwata said its "main objective was to research, develop and manufacture biological weapons." He stopped short of ordering compensation, though, ruling that there is no international law that enables individuals to sue for war damages...
Clinton officials also made efforts to help Enron get business overseas. Clinton Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary included Enron officials on trade missions to India, China, Pakistan and South Africa. White, returning from a 1994 trip to Mexico, wrote chairman Lay that "much opportunity" existed there for natural gas, and he sent a copy of Mexico's energy plans. To persuade an Enron senior vice president to join a mission to Pakistan, White wrote, "I have strong personal relationships with the existing government." Enron showed its gratitude. At Christmas 1995, documents show, it donated an unknown sum of cash...