Word: multimillions
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...pirates to Abu Sayyaf, the most feared Muslim rebel group in the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines. At midweek the Philippine Defense Secretary confirmed that the hostages were being held by Galib Andang, a.k.a. "Commander Robot," the Abu Sayyaf leader on Jolo and perpetrator of other kidnappings. He wanted a multimillion-dollar ransom. Late in the week Abu Sayyaf allowed a free-lance journalist a glimpse at what the Murphys had avoided: almost all the hostages were ill, hungry and dehydrated. And the captors insisted on new political and economic demands...
Once again the dirty work was left to others. Major Bush backers financed a last-minute multimillion-dollar advertising barrage attacking McCain's environmental record while praising Bush--the kind of shady, unregulated dirty trick McCain has been railing against for so many years in the Senate. The candidate was powerless to respond. For his part, Bush was running ads in New York charging McCain with voting against breast-cancer research. When the Governor was asked whether he knew that McCain's sister had had the disease, his response was ice cold: "All the more reason to remind...
...late March AL GORE or BILL BRADLEY will emerge victorious but dead broke and dependent on the D.N.C. to carry on the campaign until the August convention, when each party's nominee gets public funding. Meanwhile, likely G.O.P. victor GEORGE W. BUSH will be waging war with his multimillion-dollar stockpile. The dire straits have prompted BILL CLINTON to sign on for a major fund-raising tour in the next few months, party sources tell TIME, headlining at least a dozen events in a bid to raise an additional $40 million in the first quarter. The D.N.C. suffered as Democrats...