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...mobile-phone networks in Europe, Asia and Australia, though analysts are questioning Li's unprofitable investments in next-generation, or 3G, mobile-phone networks. It has major retail holdings in Europe (Superdrug) and Hong Kong, and also owns ports in the Americas, including those at each end of the Panama Canal...
...vote was the exception to the rule. Kerry had supported the use of force in Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989, Somalia in 1992, Kosovo in 1999 and Afghanistan in 2001. He supports adding 40,000 troops to the overextended armed services. As Kerry put it in his Sept. 2 announcement speech in South Carolina, "We may well have to use force to fight terrorism. I will not hesitate to do so. But if I am President, the United States will never go to war because we want to. We will only go to war because we have...
...places such as the Cayman Islands and, yes, Delaware - are turning up the regulatory heat on territories associated with flighty finance. Last week tax officials from the U.S., Germany, France and four other Western countries met in London with representatives from seven havens - including Jersey, the Isle of Man, Panama and the Cayman Islands...
...years, a Taiwanese deputy defense minister visited Washington a couple of times?after no one as senior had made a visit of the kind in more than two decades. And last month, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Chen shook hands and chatted while on a visit to Panama...
DIED. FRED TURNER, 81, lawyer who successfully represented Clarence Earl Gideon after the Supreme Court overturned his earlier conviction, in a landmark 1963 case that established the right of every defendant in a criminal case to an attorney; in Panama City, Fla. Gideon, unable to afford an attorney, unsuccessfully defended himself and was convicted of breaking into a pool hall. In a new trial, Turner won Gideon's acquittal, proving the value of a public-defender system that has since become an essential part of our legal system...