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...Such dissonance between the campaign tactics of Republicans in the Northeast and the Midwest will be hard to miss this fall. Of the 36 Republican-controlled congressional districts that should be very competitive this year, according to rankings from the non-partisan Cook Political Report, half of them are in just six states: Connecticut, Kentucky, Indiana, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Democrats will bombard these states with the bulk of the $30 million they plan to spend on ads attacking Republicans this fall. This sets up what almost appears to be a three-front regional war, where both parties...
...Republicans think they have one advantage though: the national Democratic Party. Since voters here are generally more conservative than in the Northeast, the GOP candidates are eager to tie their Democratic challengers to the national party. Chris Chocola, trying to keep his seat near South Bend, Indiana, attacked Democratic rival Joe Donnelly for an ad the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee aired recently showing flag-draped coffins of soldiers who had died in Iraq...
...founder and CEO of Oriental Weavers Carpet Co. in Cairo, the Pharaoh of Egyptian exporters. Starting with a single loom in 1980, he has become the leading producer of machine-woven carpets in the world. From a string of factories in the industrial 10th of Ramadan City, 34 miles northeast of Cairo, Oriental Weavers ships 70 million sq. ft. of carpets a year, yielding $280 million in revenues. Its customers include such retailers as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Ikea and Carrefour. With 63% of the shares held by the Khamis family, the firm has a capitalization of $600 million...
...Chinese leaders worry that draconian sanctions such as cutting off food and fuel shipments could trigger the regime's collapse, bringing refugees, disease and economic and social disruption to China's northeast. Such fears are well founded, says Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. In 1994, China's reduction of rice supplies to the North?part of a previous effort to force Pyongyang to negotiate over its nuclear-weapons program?contributed to a devastating famine. "The famine was the fault of North Korean mismanagement, of course, but it's clear that Chinese actions were the straw that...
...North Korean's nuclear weapons and missile development programs. According to South Korean and Japanese news reports over the weekend that cited unnamed diplomatic sources in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo, North Korea has apparently fueled numerous booster rockets capable of launching a Taepodong-2 missile in the country's northeast. The Taepodong-2 is believed to possess a range capable of hitting Alaska. U.S. and Japanese government spokesmen have both warned North Korea not to conduct a test. White House spokesman Tony Snow told CNN on Sunday that if North Korea goes ahead with a test, "then we will have...