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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...
...money. Oh, to be one of the Amazon anointed, those who signed on early and are enjoying multimillion-dollar payouts. You hear about Gen Xers turned philanthropists: the woman who signed up out of college and plans to retire at 30; the guy who launched a dog-biscuit business on the side. "We get told not to watch the ticker," says Marcus, a three-year vet who, one imagines, does so anyway...
...bring them up to speed with new regulations. Companies were permitted to perform only routine maintenance at the plants, and if any major renovations were undertaken, the plants had to be modernized to meet federal standards. The seven companies under fire decided to dodge these guidelines by claiming multimillion-dollar upgrades were routine maintenance, according to EPA administrator Carol Browner. The government is demanding speedy upgrades in all the offending plants and is looking to levy millions of dollars in fines...