Australia France trade talks amid South Pacific testing dispute
Australia and France faced heightened tension after Paris threatened to review coal and uranium contracts and barred EDF from new investments, while Canberra moved to block a French bid on fighter jets to protest France's plan to resume nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll.
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Sydney
Australia
France
Paris
Foreign Ministry
Electricite de France
Ister Herve de Charette
Australian Broadcasting Corp
South Pacific
Mururoa Atoll
Gareth Evans
War ren Christopher pledges aid after Cambodian tour
Secretary of State Christopher views Khmer Rouge memorials in Phnom Penh and pledges U S aid for a better future. He visits the Cambodian Mine Action Center and pressures for Most Favored Nation status while maintaining current aid. The U S donates 10 metric tons of rice worth five million dollars from surplus stocks. He will then go to Vietnam to open a U S embassy in Hanoi.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Warren Christopher
U.S
Cambodian Mine Action Center
Center
Christopher
Secretary of State
Vietnam
Hanoi
Drug cartel donation taints Samper's 1994 win in Colombia
Testimony from campaign treasurer Santiago Medina alleges President Ernesto Samper approved a $6.1 million donation from the Cali cartel to his 1994 election campaign. Medina says Botero, the campaign director, coordinated cartel funds and that Samper wanted to stay out of the loop. The revelation deepens a political crisis as opposition calls for Samper to resign and investigations expand to other ministers.
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Bogota
Colombia
Ernesto Samper
Cali
Santiago Medina
Samper
Medina
el Tiempo
Senate
Jose Gomez
Fernando Botero
Botero
Cartel
Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela
Gilberto
Jose Santacruz Londono
Helmer Herrera
Enron Dabhol project compensation under review in India
Enron lawyers in London assess potential damages as Maharashtra cancels the 2.8 billion Dabhol power project over inflated costs and secret negotiations. Construction continues at Dabhol as officials chart liabilities from about 150 supplier contracts and potential billion-dollar claims. Lenders include OPIC, Exim Bank, ABN Amro, Bank of America, and IDB. Chief Minister Joshi denounces the deal as unaffordable and betraying public trust amid power shortages projected by 2002.
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India
Enron Corp
Enron
Maharashtra
Dabhol
Vrinda Valavalkar
London
U.S
Valavalkar
the Observer
Overseas Private Investment Corp
Us-Exim Bank
Abn-Amro
Bank of America
Indian Industrial Development Bank
Manohar Joshi
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Hubei
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Chechnya
Russia
America
High Point
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Havelock
Exxon
Ketner Heights
OSHA
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Corcoran Construction, Inc
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Belk
Jcpenny
New Bern
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