The looting of Russia

By David E. Kaplan and Christian Caryl

WASHINGTON, August 3, 1998 — "Can you take a look at this?" asked Joe Davidson's supervisor at the FBI, handing him a file. Davidson cracked

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"… associates, was to punch a giant hole in the De Beers diamond cartel. The South African concern has long controlled the production and distribution of diamonds w …"

Marc Rich inquiry highlights strange bedfellows

By Josey Ballenger

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2001 — Buried in the furor over former President Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich is the role the fugitive commodities tra

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"… ich is the role the fugitive commodities trader played in supplying oil to South Africa's apartheid government, in violation of international sanctions against th …"

"… Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, cited Rich’s South Africa sanction-busting activities in the litany of charges against Rich. Burton …"

"… 1 hearing: Was Clinton “aware that Mr. Rich was violating the embargo of South Africa or that he was trading with Cuba during the Cuban embargo? Did you tell th …"

"… ation, a Washington-based organization in part clandestinely funded by the South African military to prop up overseas support for apartheid.The goal of the anti-c …"

Exporting an epidemic

By Jim Morris

Human toll reaches millions as asbestos industry expands worldwide

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"… action onwards unquestionably involve a considerable hazard.” In 1960, a South African pathologist confirmed a direct link between asbestos exposure and mesothe …"

"… s stops: Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, and Vietnam. The industry paid for all of his travel, Bernstein …"

"… . Amphiboles such as the virulent blue crocidolite, which killed miners in South Africa for nearly two centuries before the nation imposed a ban in 2008, are virt …"

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Commentary: Profiteering from democracy

By Charles Lewis

In his January 1998 State of the Union address, after decrying the campaign-fund-raising "arms race," Preside

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"… en at anniversaries of news organizations, gone fact-finding in Cape Town, South Africa, and toured movie studios. The cumulative cost of the trips was more than …"

Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part five

For months, disarray was the hallmark of Vice President Al Gore's campaign. Last October 6, he moved his campaign to Nashville from Washingt

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"… l companies’ attempts to block the manufacturer of generic AIDS drugs in South Africa. Holbrooke worked on Gore’s 1988 presidential campaign. He was largely r …"

Fixing the fixers

By Murali Krishnan

NEW DELHI, India, November 13, 2000 — This article was originally published in the Nov. 13, 2000 edition of Outlook India. It is reproduced

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"… to the world as MK, stayed in Landmark Hotel in Kanpur where he met former South African captain Hansie Cronje during the third Test match in 1996.It was here tha …"

"… m MK, his decision to fix two matches in the 1996 Titan Cup series against South Africa and another match in the Pepsi Asia Cup in Sri Lanka in 1997, may just be …"

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Overnight guests at governor's mansion added $2.2 million to Bush campaign

By Nathaniel Heller

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2000 — Sixty of George W. Bush's overnight guests at the Texas Governor's Mansion have collectively given and raised m

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"… uch luminaries as actor Sean Connery, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, former South African president Nelson Mandela, media titan Rupert Murdoch and Alan Greenspan, …"

Africa's 'merchant of death' sold arms to the Taliban

By Phillip van Niekerk and André Verlöy

WASHINGTON, January 31, 2002 — Victor Bout, the Russian arms trafficker whose clandestine sales of weapons of war to some of the bloodiest r

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"… al Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland and Uganda, according to reports by the United Nations, …"

The world's asbestos behemoth

By Roman Shleynov

Vast amounts shipped overseas, used at home

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"… the owners of Uralasbest and representatives of two groups with offices in South Africa, which banned asbestos in 2008. The C. J. Petrow Group, headquartered …"

"… tist who reportedly was involved in sales of Russian military equipment to South Africa in the 1990s.Representatives of Uralasbest and Voloshin did not respond to …"

How U.S. policy on marketing tobacco overseas fell through the cracks in Malawi

By Maud S. Beelman and Zoë Davidson

November 2, 1999 — The economically impoverished country of Malawi in southern Africa is an example of what fell through the cracks in U.S.

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