Word: projects
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Senate leader Bulger will face renewed criticism in coming months over his role in a controversial Boston real estate deal. Last week, Massachusetts Attorney General James Shannon called upon the U.S. Justice Department to review the federal probe of the 75 State Street construction project, to which the South Boston Democrat is linked...
...more accessible leader who will conduct spontaneous press conferences (if only to prove he is on top of his game), a pragmatic moderate willing to accommodate reality rather than rail against it. Already his excessive jingoism has been banished, out of sync with the style he seeks to project. (Was it really George Bush who said, after the Vincennes disaster last July, "I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are"?) Already forgotten as well is the promise of "wholesale change" and "fresh faces." In the Bush Administration, the experienced...
...government knew of the involvement of West German firms in the construction of the plant last May, three months earlier than previous reports indicated. That statement only deepened the mystery of why Kohl not only failed to act on his knowledge of West Germany's role in the project until prodded by U.S. press leaks, but also angrily denied what he knew to be true...
...Washington alone in conveying its alarm to Bonn over the Libyan project. Israeli intelligence officials also established the complicity of West German firms and in July notified their counterparts in Bonn of their findings. Unlike the U.S., however, Israel did not try to take the story public. One reason might be that West Germany has become the Israeli defense industry's best foreign customer. Bonn buys $300 million worth of ammunition and spare parts for tank guns and electronic equipment annually, helping provide employment for 7,000 Israeli workers...
...authorities agree that the Rabta plant, which is believed to be capable of producing commodities other than chemical weapons, does not violate international law. Moreover, some or even all of the West German firms so far implicated in the project may have remained within the bounds of West German law. But that is not saying much. The country's export regulations are among the loosest in the world. The Economics Ministry processes some 70,000 chemical-industry export applications each year. Even the tighter regulations announced in the wake of the Libyan scandal, Economics Minister Helmut Haussmann maintained...