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...fact, isn?t the only Dubai company that has won big business with the Pentagon. In December 2004, another such firm, Seven Seas Shipchandlers, won a $700 million contract to be the prime vendor for maintenance and repair operations for troops in the U.S. Central Command region, which includes the Middle East. Seven Seas has also provided food supplies to U.S. troops in Iraq. Another Dubai-based firm, MAC International, is under contract to deliver $67.2 million worth of police trucks to the Army. Those vehicles, however, will bear a stamp that should please any Washington pol: Made In Detroit...
...capital to its nascent financial center. More concretely, Dubai is committed to $200 billion in projects, including expanding the city of Dubai's airport, and tons more hotels and condos. Dubai recently unveiled a plan to create a "global aerospace manufacturing and services corporation" that will offer leasing and repair services, challenging firms like General Electric (start-up funds: $15 billion). Emaar is building an entire city in Saudi Arabia, a $23 billion project that will include an airport, seaport, schools and hospitals...
Last week, speaking to the city's business community, Bush's Katrina czar, Donald Powell, promised that the levees would be rebuilt "better and stronger" before hurricane season starts in June--thanks to $1.5 billion Congress approved in December for levee-repair work and temporary floodgates on Lake Pontchartrain. Will it be enough? To find out, the Corps, using a supercomputer and a centrifuge, is running simulations on 1,300 storm possibilities to calculate risk. East New Orleans is its test case, and its report is due later this month. "If there is another Katrina, the system is not built...
...around the Big Easy, that's the other big if. Task Force Guardian is the group within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers charged with making short-term repairs to the levee system by the start of storm season. To date, the Corps has signed nearly $400 million in repair contracts. All around town its crews can be seen working to restore levees, fix flood walls and install interim floodgates and bypass pumps. But for months the mantra around New Orleans has been that in the longer term, the city must have more--namely storm protection sufficient to resist...
...precisely what Bush has us doing in Afghanistan and Iraq? As Klein said, democracy "demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions." I hope Americans make informed decisions in the next elections and hold our public officials accountable for what they say. We need to repair our image as a superpower and calm the global hornet's nest this Administration and congressional leadership have stirred up. Richard Zack New Providence, New Jersey...