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...report makes clear that Abramoff was in frequent communication with White House officials, particularly Susan Ralston, who was an assistant to Abramoff before becoming Rove's assistant early in Bush's first term. Abramoff's clients, mainly Indian tribes, paid for skyboxes and tickets to events that the lobbyist used to host congressional aides and others, and in the e-mails, Ralston treats Abramoff like her own personal Ticketmaster, frequently asking him if he has tickets to games and leaving the impression in some messages that she occasionally didn't pay for them. White House officials are banned from taking...
...also their jobs and the bread from their hands." The blasts could provoke a change in thinking in how to deal with the p.k.k. Turkey had been urging the U.S. to help root out the group from northern Iraq. Last week Washington finally responded by naming retired General Joseph Ralston, the former nato Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, as a special anti-p.k.k. coordinator. Ralston has close contacts with the Turkish military and will set up a "tripartite" group between Turkey, Iraq and the U.S. designed to ensure that "the p.k.k. cannot conduct terrorist activities," according...
...security forces will eliminate this threat." Until now, the U.S. has urged Turkey to keep its troops out of northern Iraq so as not to foment a broader war with Iraqi Kurds, who are not currently aligned with the p.k.k. Some Turkish TV and newspaper commentators last week saw Ralston's appointment as an indication that the U.S. was ready to take on the p.k.k. in Iraq unilaterally, as some Turkish politicians had been demanding for years. But there's little chance of that, says Henri Barkey, a former U.S. State Department official who now teaches at Lehigh University...
Union Carbide's consumer division, which last year accounted for 20% of company sales, contains such winners as Eveready batteries, Prestone antifreeze, STP fuel additive and Glad trash bags. Among the ready suitors rumored to be interested in these popular products are Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Ralston Purina. PERSONNEL Video Headhunting...
...TALE: Ralston cut off his right arm after it got crushed by a boulder while he was rock climbing in Utah...