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...Bank payment on arms to prosecute a war against northern secessionists. Environmentalists worry that massive infrastructure projects like the Chad-Cameroon pipeline will destroy sensitive rain forests. Critics also fear that the oil windfall will help prop up dictators. In Equatorial Guinea, the ruling party and its leader, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, show no sign of giving up control; opposition members are routinely harassed and tortured, according to Amnesty International. The IMF has cut off several aid programs because of corruption, and has called for good governance and good management of oil resources in Equatorial Guinea, warning that "authorities will...
...Teodoro Garcia Buenos Aires...
...weeks earlier, a gang of 200 Nazi-skins marched through the northern Italian city of Vicenza shouting racist slogans and waving banners with swastika-like emblems. Mainstream political leaders expressed outrage, but not Teodoro Buontempo, 48, a self-proclaimed fascist elected to Parliament in March on the ticket of the National Alliance, the successor to the party founded by followers of Benito Mussolini. In an interview with the Turin daily La Stampa, Buontempo said, "I would send them into the midst of society" to proclaim their values. And they have. Speaking on the Italian television network RAI-1, Maurizio Boccacci...
...doubt that the stage has been set for a war of the widows, an icy clash of politics and personalities that has already galvanized the nation by pitting the country's most powerful women against each other. "Everybody is shivering with excitement," says Teodoro Benigno, who served as Aquino's press secretary until 1989. "It's the Cory mystique against the Imelda mystique...
...encouraged by its Pacific allies, remains essentially in a holding posture toward Asia, the region's rapid political and economic changes raise questions about the durability of current security arrangements. Writing in the Philippine Star, former Aquino press secretary Teodoro Benigno, a respected political analyst, posed a provocative scenario. "The rules of the big power game will change," he predicted, "as America weakens, Japan resurges, and the Chinese giant starts to bellow." The 21st century, in his view, will be "an Asian century." Even if he proves right, the U.S. military presence might help determine whether the coming changes will...