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...post-Saddam Iraq. But Serbian officials say their country - not long ago the target of U.S. bombs - is in line for a chunk of a $680 million pie. Reason: in the run-up to Gulf War II, Serbian and U.S. officials tell Time, Serbia gave the U.S. vital information about Iraqi targets. Serbia was perfectly poised to lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s, Yugoslav firms defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party...
...later, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. President Jimmy Carter, concluding that the Soviet army was passing through Afghanistan to seize the Middle East oil fields, sounded a warning: "An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force...
...entrepreneurs like Mao have been cut off from vital resources by the country's antiquated and deeply indebted banking system, which still lends mainly to lumbering state-owned enterprises. The government has allowed the failure of thousands of these uncompetitive vestiges of the revolution--in the past eight years, 56 million factory workers have lost their jobs. But the government's fear of mass unrest keeps thousands more state firms on life support, consuming government-directed "policy loans" that will probably never be repaid. China's four biggest banks are technically insolvent because they are owed an estimated $500 billion...
...doubt this grim prediction. The Indonesian government itself estimates that up to 200,000 Acehnese could be displaced by war, and has avowedly allocated $48 million to help them. The army promises that the boats disgorging soldiers and ammunition on Aceh's shores will also carry rice and other vital supplies for civilians. "I'll believe it when I see it," says one 45-year-old village leader, who is too afraid to give his name. We meet in the ramshackle sports hall of Lhokseumawe Polytechnic, where about a thousand refugees (700 of them children) from two villages near Simpang...
...preparation for the grueling competition, Radcliffe has tapered its workout schedule and attempted to hone its technique, hoping to shave those vital final seconds off its times...