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...poor human rights record, which includes, according to Amnesty International, corporal punishment of dissidents, lack of democracy, and the use of child slave labor in the camel racing industry. Zayed also funds the “Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up,” the major think tank of the Arab League, in Abu Dhabi—described on its website “as the fulfillment of the vision of Sheikh Zayed.” The Zayed Centre holds regular lectures and symposiums, and produces publications that spew anti-Jewish and anti-American rhetoric. American extremist Lyndon...
...officer assisted Environment Health and Safety officials in securing a leaking nitrogen tank at Jefferson...
...Powell made progress on a U.N. resolution aimed at lifting sanctions against Iraq. But it could take a long time to get more. "The reality is we have different priorities, different capabilities and different responsibilities," says Jeffrey Gedmin, director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, an American-backed think tank. "To pretend that it's still this cosy cold war NATO where we always agree - those days are gone...
...chances of ever winning a referendum dissolve. So on June 9, Blair must acknowledge the euro is off for now while still managing to juice up its supporters - a balancing act that is getting old. Mark Leonard, director of the Foreign Policy Centre in London, a think tank with close ties to Labour, says that "six years of warm words but no action have left Blair with a big credibility gap, both on the Continent and with the pro-European movement here." The Conservatives sense an opportunity to turn the tables on Blair. His tactic has been to paint them...
...trade. Add to that the fact that the electrical grid is supplying only 40 percent capacity; there are no streetlights, no telephone system, TV, radio or other reliable forms of communication; gasoline shortages require residents to line up for 10 hours in order to buy a third of a tank; the fact that the prewar jobs of millions of Iraqis have simply disappeared, leaving them without income and no reliable food distribution system to replace the official rationing system that existed before the war - looting and criminal violence has slowed the deliver of aid - and the situation of many ordinary...