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...Clinton meeting had had its Republican counterpart just two weeks earlier, when G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour pleaded his case aboard the yacht of Hong Kong tycoon Ambrous Tung Young. Barbour had offered Young a voice in shaping U.S.-China policy for the new think tank of the G.O.P.'s congressional majority. And by the way, Barbour added, the party needed a favor. Could Young forgive what remained of a $2.2 million loan that his overseas firm had guaranteed so the Republican Party could stop pouring money into the think tank and pour money into campaigns instead...
...those steamy summer weekends, when a battalion of bustling, big-budget Hollywood movies hits the theaters--and many of them tank. But don't feel sorry for those forlorn moguls. Just because a movie stumbles in the U.S. doesn't mean the rest of the world should be spared it. In fact, the voracious appetite for American celluloid in Europe, Asia and South America is turning many a domestic dog into a foreign blockbuster. Herewith a sampling of recent films that enjoyed just such overseas turnarounds...
...aground, they now believe only 9,800 barrels poured into the harbor. The 100,000 barrel estimate would have made the accident the worst oil spill in Japan's history. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said today most of the oil which spilled from the third of the ship's tanks "seems to have flowed into the second empty tank and miraculously didn't leak outside.'' Still, the slick poses a threat to marine life in the area. By early Thursday it covered an area of the bay about 9.4 miles by 11 miles and was moving westward, rather than north...
Haley Barbour can't say he wasn't warned. The former Republican Party chief had hoped to partly finance a G.O.P. think tank that he had founded and chaired--the National Policy Forum--with foreign cash in 1993, but was waved off by its president. "It would be wrong to do so," wrote Michael Baroody in a confidential memo obtained by TIME. Barbour nevertheless lined up Hong Kong collateral for a $2.2 million loan to the Forum. The money helped free up funds for the successful Republican assault on Congress in 1994, and it aided the party again two years...
...raising scandal centers on a donation to Thompson's party. According to documents turned over to Senate investigators on Friday, then G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour discussed the possibility of helping a Hong Kong tycoon get business in China if he forgave a $2.2 million loan to a Republican think tank. Barbour has denied this latest allegation...