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NUTE GUNRAY Episode I --Viceroy of the Trade Federation that blockades and invades Naboo...
After 35 years in Washington, Dole has an astonishingly small circle. He has a coterie of old friends, including Democratic Party viceroy Bob Strauss and Archer Daniels Midland Co. chairman Dwayne Andreas, but he does not seek their counsel. Other than his wife Elizabeth, who is an ad hoc adviser on nearly everything, Dole's inner circle is made up of Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico, John McCain of Arizona and Bob Bennett of Utah, and even they say they are not sure what he absorbs. He taps experts on specific policy matters when he needs them--including...
According to internal reports from the nation's third largest cigarette maker, tobacco companies have been enhancing nicotine delivery for smokers by adding ammonia-based compounds to cigarettes. The confidential studies, which were obtained by the Wall Street Journal, came from Brown & Williamson (makers of Viceroy and Raleigh). One of them points out that while the company introduced no extra nicotine in its cigarettes, adding ammonium hydroxide appears to provide "increases in impact and satisfaction...
Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler charged that a major tobacco firm secretly developed a high-nicotine tobacco and has started using it in its Richland, Viceroy and Raleigh brand cigarettes. Kessler told a congressional panel that Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. had told its researchers to lie to the FDA about the secret tobacco, known as Y-1, which Kessler says was grown in Brazil and distributed throughout the U.S. last year. Two shipping invoices aside, the House had to take Kessler's word for it, as he chose to keep all sources confidential. Tobacco company officials...
...siding with Iraq in the just-ended war. Saudis devoutly believe that the Jordanian King conspired with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who is no relation, to carve up Saudi Arabia. King Hussein supposedly would have reigned over the holy cities of Mecca and Medina as a sort of Iraqi viceroy (his ancestors ruled that part of Arabia until driven out by Abdul Aziz, founder of the House of Saud, before World War I). Outside Arabia, most analysts doubt Saddam would ever have shared power that...