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...Bank of America in London. "If more buoyant global demand does not come to the rescue soon, Germany will remain in deep trouble." - By Charles P. Wallace/Berlin Reconstructive Criticism It was about as discreet as a Rumsfeld one-liner: the U.S. has requested bids for $900 million to rebuild Iraq, using only American companies - including Vice President Cheney's old firm Halliburton. That prompted British M.P. Vincent Cable, backed by rapturous cheers, to ask Prime Minister Tony Blair if he was "embarrassed" to support a President who regards "war as an opportunity to dish out contracts to his cronies...
...idea is based on two linked concerns: to choreograph a way out of the current standoff in which the Israelis say they can't withdraw from territory reoccupied in the current intifada because they're there to stop terror attacks, while the Palestinian Authority says it can't rebuild its institutions and resume security control as long as the Israeli military occupies its towns and cities; and to set a clearly defined end goal and schedule for any negotiating process, rather than leaving it open-ended...
...search of Saddam Hussein, but another team of American sleuths will be hunting something even more shadowy: his money. Severing the dictator from his dollars would make it far more difficult for Saddam to survive in hiding like Osama bin Laden, while the recovery of those assets could help rebuild Iraq...
...negotiation." Which is another way of saying that designing a building is only half the battle. The real struggle is getting the thing built. Libeskind, 56, was named the winner last week of the extraordinarily hard fought and closely watched competition for a design to rebuild the World Trade Center site. Now the real work begins: financing a scheme that includes a museum and five office buildings, working with the sharp-elbowed assortment of public authorities and private parties who lay claim to the site and keeping the plan from being nibbled to death by changes. How much...
...ANGOLA Recovering from a long civil war, it wants U.S. help in finding donors to rebuild. But two can play this game: France is promising a home in exile for Angola's President. --By Marguerite Michaels and Karen Tumulty