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Bush, Blair Agree To Work With Other G8 Countries on African Debt ...
Medical News Today, UK - Jun 12, 2005
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday pledged to work with other leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations to forgive
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday pledged to work with other leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations to forgive the debt of the poorest African countries and, as expected, Bush announced $674 million in additional humanitarian aid for the continent,... USA Today reports (Benedetto, USA Today, 6/8). At a joint press conference during Blair's visit to the White House, Bush announced that the additional aid will be directed toward famine relief in Ethiopia, Eritrea and other African countries and will provide food for approximately 14 million people. The $674 million will come from a USDA food reserve program and from funding provided by a recent supplemental appropriations bill to support ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 6/7). Experts estimate that about 20% of Southern African agricultural workers are expected to die of AIDS-related causes by 2020, which could threaten food production and worsen food shortages (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 5/5). The funds will be directed only to countries that practice good governance, according to Bush (USA Today, 6/8). "I see we've got a fantastic opportunity, presuming that the countries in Africa make the right decisions. Nobody wants to give money to a country that's corrupt, where leaders take money and put it in their pocket," Bush said (VandeHei, Washington Post, 6/8). Bush also defended his decision not to agree to Blair's proposal to double weathy nations' aid to Africa to $25 billion, according to the New York Times. He said that the United States already has tripled aid to Africa to $3.2 billion during his administration, adding, "We'll do more down the road," the Times reports (Bumiller, New York Times, 6/8).
Debt Relief Plan
Bush and Blair also said that a deal to forgive the debt of the world's poorest countries likely will be reached soon, possibly by the end of the week, according to the Wall Street Journal. The deal would cancel approximately $34 billion in debt for at least 27 poor countries. More countries could become eligible under the deal, which would include the obligations owed to the World Bank and the African Development Bank. Debt owed to the International Monetary Fund would not be included under the deal. "I think there is a real and common desire to help that troubled continent come out of the poverty and deprivation that so many millions of its people suffer," Blair said, adding, "In a situation where literally thousands of children die from preventable diseases every day, it's our duty to act, and we will" (McKinnon/Hitt, Wall Street Journal, 6/8).
NPR's "All Things Considered" on Tuesday reported on the meeting between Blair and Bush (Gonyea, "All Things Considered," NPR, 6/7). The complete segment is available online in RealPlayer.
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New Documents Show Mark Felt Pretended to Search for 'Deep Throat'
Editor & Publisher - 17 hours ago
... magazine obtained from FBI Archives. In a sense, authors David Corn and Jeffrey Goldberg point out, Felt was both leaker and plumber. ...
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Published: June 13, 2005 9:00 PM ET
NEW YORK Back in the day, W. Mark Felt was more than Deep Throat -- he was also, at times, engaged in (supposedly) outing and stopping Deep Throat before he leaked again. He even staged a fake interrogation of Bob Woodward.
All this and more is included in an article for The Nation, mainly based on FBI documents -- some written by Felt -- the magazine obtained from FBI Archives. In a sense, authors David Corn and Jeffrey Goldberg point out, Felt was both leaker and plumber.
They detail how FBI Director L. Patrick Gray in the summer of 1972, shortly after the Watergate break-in and Felt's first chats with Woodward, ordered Assistant Director Charles Bates to personally grill suspects under oath. When Gray was out of town, White House counsel John Dean would ask Felt to stop the leaks.
On Sept. 11, 1972, Felt wrote a memo suggesting that Woodward and Bernstein "might have been receiving secret FBI information from someone outside the FBI. Deep Throat was shrewdly taking this opportunity to direct suspicion toward another Woodward and Bernstein leaker.
In the same memo, Felt noted that the county prosecutor
in Miami, Richard Gerstein, might be the Post's main source¦To search for the Post's leaker(s), Felt instructed the FBI's Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) in Miami to interview every FBI official who had been in contact with Gerstein....In retrospect, Felt's memo looks like an attempt to convince Pat Gray and other senior officials at the bureau that he was on top of the leak issue.
At one point, Felt even officially met with Woodward -- in what appears to have been another move to cover himself. It now seems obvious that Felt (probably with Woodward's cooperation) staged this meeting to make it look as if Felt was not assisting Woodward, the Nation writers note.
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