Where Has All the Money Gone?
Timmerman, Kenneth R.
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...Israel is and has always been prepared to grant full autonomy to the Arabs living in Judea/Samaria...
...The DNC made a fuss over returning $275,000 in contributions from Chung and his Torrance, California company, Automated Intelligence Systems, Inc...
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...EASY MING AUDIT One unanswered question about the fundraising scandal is how and when the DNC first got wind that it was under investigation by the FBI...
...In September 1996—without ever having been informed directly by the FBI that it might be under suspicion—the DNC began its first probe of questionable contributions...
...Azima is still an intriguing figure...
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...Gary Ackerman and Lee Hamilton, and to Senators Chuck Robb, Edward Kennedy, and Harris Wofford...
...In March, House Minority Leader Gephardt announced he was returning $zz,000 in Lippo money, including $6,000 he received from the Huangs...
...The Myth of Greater Israel...
...On June 3, 1996, the FBI briefed two National Security Council staffers about the Chinese effort to funnel illicit contributions to key Congressional Democrats, telling the staffers that the DNC was under investigation by the FBI for accepting illegal contributions from Chinese government agents operating in the United States...
...In his case, the money pitch was not made at the coffee—but at a dinner at the vice president's residence the night before...
...and that's the last thing you want...
...Henry Hyde and Tillie Fowler asked Janet Reno to investigate whether this and other high-tech cases were quashed because of secret Chinese contributions...
...But the DNC apparently was told by someone at the White House...
...made only a token $250 donation in 1993 to the campaign of Charles Robb...
...In its audit the DNC announced it was returning $108,893 that Azima contributed in his own name, and another $34,848 to Azima's Aviation Leasing Group for services rendered during the 1996 campaign...
...Another late giver was Chuan-Chen Liu, whose Royola Pacific Ltd...
...I knew when Al Gore or [campaign manager] Peter Knight invited me for some event, they would always ask me for money," the donor said...
...1,500 from Lippo employee Kim Tay Tin...
...On June 17 the Des Moines Register reported that Tamraz had funneled $35,000 to Iowa Sen...
...Palestine," part of the Ottoman Empire before World War I, came under British mandate after that war...
...Although the price this donor paid was also high—well in excess of $120,000 of his own money, not to mention the Sioo,000 or more contributed by his guests—he feels he received value for his money...
...Chang's company, Keum Jwa Mortgage Co., in Los Angeles, donated another $5,000 over time...
...GREAT EXPECTARONS Sources close to Azima note his role since 1995 in Caspian Sea oil projects to build pipelines across his native Iran to the Persian Gulf, or across Turkey to the Mediterranean Sea...
...Tom Harkin's campaign and met three times with Harkin's wife, who as president of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation would have been a key ally for Tamraz's project In response to GOP calls that the money be returned, Peter Wilmert, communications director of the Iowa Democratic Party, replied: 'We're not in the business of returning proper and legal 30 August 1997 • The American Spectator You deserve a factual look at "Greater Israel" Does it have any relation to reality...
...He also agreed to help the campaign by organizing a private dinner-party at his Manhattan residence that was attended by Vice President Gore...
...4,500 from Susanto Widjaja (including $1,500 to California Democratic Sen...
...Soliciting campaign contributions on U.S...
...According to FEC records, it took in $26,500 from Lippo contributors...
...Fowler interceded directly on behalf of Tamraz by seeking a letter of recommendation from the CIA, in order to bypass the nay-sayers at the NSC...
...According to reports in the Houston Post in 1991, congressional investigators were "warned off" from Azima "because of his connections to the CIA...
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...For his services he was invited on three occasions to have coffee with President Clinton at the White House...
...As it looks right now, that may still take some time...
...Does it have any relation to reality...
...WO LUCRE When it released the Ernst & Young audit on February 28, the DNC was careful to absolve the auditors in advance of any oversight, noting that "the final decision on which contributions should be returned was solely that of the DNC"— a wise disclaimer, it turns out...
...Both President Clinton and then-national security adviser Anthony Lake insist they were never informed of the FBI probe...
...Another Glendale donor was Steven Sung Gill Chang, who gave $1o,000 to the DNC on June 23, 1993...
...But it turned out the place was full of people...
...In all, the thirty who attended the 1993 Gore/Huang event contributed $63,850 to the Democratic Party over the next three years...
...I include my I tax-deductible contribution in the amount of /42A Fads and Logic about the Midcle East PO...
...Once you get involved, it's very hard to say no because it creates such a bad feeling...
...It became something of a racket, he admits...
...The Commerce Department initially admitted that Huang had attended only 37 briefings while at Commerce in 1994-95...
...Another $6,750 that the Huangs contributed to other candidates was returned in February 1997, well after the Asian-donor scandal became public...
...In all, this donor gave more than $16o,000 before the campaign was over...
...0 n February 28, Colorado Governor and Democratic National Committee Chairman Roy Romer told reporters that in light of an "independent audit" the DNC was now committed to returning $3 million in "improper" donations, and that he was instituting new controls to bar foreign contributions in the future...
...Romer's earnestness paid off...
...The Arab counties in contrast are huge—they occupy twice the area of the United States...
...1 My name is Hive at I In Stale zip 31 contributions...
...In June we located Han Chuan (USA) in Pasadena, California, and were The American Spectator • August 1997 told it was a mainland Chinese trading company working with the China National Aero-TechnologyCorporation (CATIC) in nearby El Monte...
...The next favorite of the Lippo Group was Rep...
...Nor does the audit identify contributions from four donors who listed their employer as Johnny Chung's Automated Intelligence Systems— Kai Ching Lien, Chien Shih Lin, Stephen Lin, and Irene Wu—each of whom contributed $1,000 directly to the Clinton-Gore campaign...
...At the time of his involvement with S&Ls during Republican administrations, Azima contributed only $18,000 to the Republican Party, a far more modest sum than the $143,000 he donated in recent years to the DNC...
...All it wants is to live in peace within secure and defensible borders, just as any other country and as required under U.N...
...For one thing, on June 6 the RNC filed a comrlaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing the DNC of failing to return contributions its auditors had identified on February 28 as tainted...
...history—but for the first time ever, serious people are raising serious questions about whether the President of the United States granted special favors to foreign powers in exchange for money...
...Greater Israel...
...Why were some of Azima's contributions deemed appropriate and others not...
...And unless that mindset changes, not until the Arab states have become democracies and have come to full acceptance of Israel, are willing to make true peace with it, and are prepared to establish normal and friendly relations with Israel can any possible territorial adjustment be considered...
...Its audit identified twenty-three Trie-related contributions totaling $645,00o for return...
...The Lippo Group had billions of dollars in investments at stake in China and Indonesia that could have been adversely affected by U.S...
...The total amount discovered by TAS not included in the DNC audit from Lippo sources: $244,875...
...FEC records show they contributed a mere $18,750 to Democrats in 1993...
...They wrote a series of $1,000 checks to the Clinton/Gore campaign and to other Democratic candidates, including Ted Kennedy, and former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder...
...This was not all the money the DNC auditors missed...
...In order to achieve peace with Egypt, Israel returned to it all of the Sinai...
...Although the DNC didn't shy from identifying former LippoUSA boss John Huang as a source of improper (and possibly illegal) campaign contributions, its audit failed to identify $203,525 contributed directly by Lippo corporate officers to Democratic campaigns in the 1993-1994 campaign cycle, and another $4.1,35o in 1995-1996: 103 contributions for a total of $244,875 that hasn't been earmarked for return...
...But it seems that the size of Israel, whether "greater" or 'lesser" is not at all the concern of Israel's implacable Arab enemies...
...After the DNC itself, the largest recipient of Lippo funds was the California Victory '94 fund, a Democratic PAC that contributed more than $1 million to the campaign of Senator Feinstein...
...Azima's interest in Democratic politics is all the more interesting given his role in the collapse of a Kansas City savings and loan that was connected to the U.S...
...government property is a federal crime...
...What were they seeking...
...She was introduced to Gore as chairwoman of the Han Chuan (USA) Corp., of Glendale, California, John Huang's home town...
...On October 15,1993, two Lippo employees each sent $10,000 checks to the DNC...
...The American Spectator • August 1997 questionable or possibly illegal...
...citizens...
...Another $22,500 of unreturned Lippo contributions came from Joseph Sund, who alternately listed his employer as Lippo or Pacific Trade Enterprise...
...Of the $18,500 he contributed to the DNC and to Demo- cratic candidates, only $2,000 has been returned—$1,000 each from Senators Kennedy and Dianne Feinstein...
...After all, how many people can say they had the vice president for dinner to discuss the federal budget...
...On May 23, 1994, Charles Dequeljoe, president of the Los Angeles—based Lippo Securities, his wife, Susan, and Lippo Land manager Kenneth Wynn sent $1,000 checks to Rep...
...Your tax-deductible contributions are welcome...
...There are strident requests by the Arab countries, by the Palestinians, and indeed by much of the world that Israel should once and for all abandon its dream of a "Greater Israel...
...and Charlie Trie, a Clinton crony from Little Rock who escorted the head of a Chinese state-run arms company to the White House in February 1996 for coffee and chit-chat with the president...
...On May 22, Reps...
...On Wall Street, where even the hint of inside knowledge can be worth gold, it was a small price to pay...
...Obviously, Israel has no territorial ambitions...
...For instance, on June 1993, three Lippo employees each sent $1,000 to the Senate campaign of Charles Robb...
...Combining the $41,o6o in unretumed moneys from Johnny Chung and Charlie Trie with the Lippo amounts, brings the unreported total that the DNC should return to $289,935...
...Its purpose is the research and publication of the facts regarding developments in the Middle East and emosing false propaganda that might harm the interests of the United States and its allies in that area of the world...
...The DNC did a better job with Charlie Trie, who donated money personally and through three Little Rock companies...
...intelligence community...
...Soon enough press attention turned to RNC finances and to chief congressional investigator Dan Burton, creating enough of a sense of moral equivalence that the public no longer appears interested in the Democrats' dubious campaign practices...
...We then ran those names through FEC data bases to compile their total contributions...
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...It is dear that the concept of "Greater Israel," lacks any validity and has no basis in fact...
...The $47,500 he gave to various Democratic campaigns from 1993 to 1996 was not returned...
...Peter Knight asked me to come to the vice president's dinner, promising it would be a very small affair...
...The day before Solomon went public with this new information, he asked FBI Director Louis Freeh whether the administration had initiated a "damage assessment," to determine what documents Huang could have transmitted to the Lippo Group and to the Chinese...
...But that has no basis in fact, of course...
...Joe Kennedy (who has returned some of the $11,000 he received), and his uncle, Sen...
...The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, an adjunct of the DNC, received $11,250, and the couple sent $1,000 checks to Reps...
...Congressional investigators aren't the only ones looking into Lippo and the use of its money for political influence...
...while $61,5oo has remained in DNC accounts from Kenneth Wynn of the Lippo's Land Limited Corporation...
...But congressional investigators believe Huang may have used some of the attendees at the dinner to funnel money from foreign sources to the DNC...
...In 1994, Dequeljoe was appointed to the Investment and Services Policy Committee, a presidential panel that advises the U.S...
...to a fighter-bomber plant in China...
...To apply such a concept to a country as small as Israel would almost seem a mockery...
...If ever there was a quid pro quo—dollars for favors —this was one...
...government favors and privileged treatment, including "early warning" of American policy actions that could affect the company...
...More important, until now no one has questioned the DNC's own figure of $3 million in donations from "tainted" sources— i.e., dead persons, ex-convicts, foreign nationals, or cut-outs operating on behalf of foreign corporations or governments...
...They also told the NSC that the Bureau had wire-tap evidence that might prove embarrassing to the White House...
...At the cocktail party before we sat down to dinner, both Al and Tipper came up to me and said, 'Thank-you for your support.' That was when I made the commitment to write the $5o,000 check," the donor said...
...Felix Ma, of Rancho Palos Verde, Calif., is another Huang crony...
...After all, that's why I was invited to the dinner, and why I wrote the check," the donor said...
...I have no regrets about my contributions," he said...
...Joe Kennedy's campaign...
...One donor is a partner in a medium-size law firm, who needed to show his foreign clients, who assumed such connections could be bought, that he had a direct line to the White House...
...But what of all those unaccounted donations made by people with ties to the Lippo Group or Communist Chinese businesses...
...Israel is one of the smallest counties in the world...
...On June 13 the Associated Press quoted aides to Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson saying they now had evidence that Trie had received up to $1 million in wire transfers from the Bank of China in 1996, which he then contributed to the DNC...
...Where I come from, when you make a mistake, you do three things;' Romer said gamely...
...In 1986 Azima briefly entered the U.S...
...many of these contributions were made in the name of his wife, Linda, and a sister-in-law, Shahnaz Azima...
...Trie and Chung have fled the country and are believed to be living in mainland China, while John Huang is holed up in California refusing to respond to congressional and FBI subpoenas, a luxury not available to most U.S...
...But what does it really mean...
...None of that money has been returned...
...IPlease send me your 1-hr videotape dealing with three important aspects of Israel's strategic situation...
...What are the facts...
...According to a February 20 report in the Los Angeles Times, however, the company had loaned its jets to DNC chairman Don Fowler on forty-six occasions, "costing the party more than $200,000...
...As we went to press, Freeh had not replied...
...Gore didn't do so well with the dinner guests—at least, not immediately...
...Under pressure from Solomon, Commerce has revised its estimate to 109 briefings, and most recently to 46...
...But the FBI is known to be pursuing links between key DNC fundraisers (including John Huang) and Chinese intelligence, while Dan Burton's investigators are looking into a host of mafia-like figures and foreign intelligence agents who contributed to Clinton-Gore in the expectation of favors...
...In mid-1995 this lawyer attended one of the White House coffees and contributed $5o,000 two weeks later...
...According to a senior member of the Burton investigative team, there could be millions more...
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...policy decisions...
...The DNC may have overlooked these Lippo contributions because most of them were made by U.S...
...Including the vaunted 'West Bank," the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, the entire area of the country is barely over 10,000 square miles...
...KRT $212,652...
...He attended a White House coffee in late 1995, and sent a $50,000 check to the DNC a few weeks later...
...Azima claims through his lawyer that he was unaware of the lease: he had fifty aircraft at the time and did not personally keep track of their whereabouts...
...In some ways the motivations for Azima and Tamraz's gift-giving are clear: get U.S...
...It was also lucrative...
...It was very clear that the vice president was asking me for money...
...DINNER MAE Even though the DNC played up its attempt to return all the funds raised by John Huang, it appears to have overlooked one of the first fundraisers Huang organized for the DNC...
...Of this amount, Huang and his wife, Jane, personally gave $72,625 to the DNC and a number of individual and party campaigns...
...Total unrefunded contributions: $47,500 in cash, and $165,152 in aircraft leasing fees, for a total of 29 DONORS BREAKING SILENCE T wo members of Bill Clinton's lioo,000 Club," who spoke to TAS on condition of anonymity, shed additional light on donor goals for giving: they wanted "image and connection," rather than hard favors...
...The Post reported that after initially refusing to provide the investigating congressional committee with any information on Azima or his failed thrift, Indian Springs State Bank, then-CIA director William Webster testified about Azima in closed session before the House Intelligence Committee on October 25,199o...
...The very existence of Israel, of a Jewish state in their midst of whatever size, is unacceptable to the Arabs...
...The plane was allegedly used to fly more than forty-six tons of arms to Iran in 1986...
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...Needless to say, don't expect the DNC to return the money these two gentlemen contributed...
...In addition to John Huang, Starr is seeking testimony and documents from David Yeh, an employee of Lippo Realty Inc., and Lippo Securities' Charles Dequeljoe...
...It did so with the full knowledge of Commerce Department officials, who did nothing to stop the diversion...
...A look at the map is revealing...
...This ties in with a project being promoted by Lebanese businessman Roger Tamraz, another big DNC contributor, who was barred from the White House by National Security Agency staffers, but who was still wooed for big donations to the Democratic Party by DNC chief Don Fowler...
...The law required the DNC to return that illegal money within 3o days, but nearly 4 months have passed and the DNC has refused to return nearly $2 million of it," the RNC said...
...Barbara Boxer...
...You admit it...
...At his prodding, the other dinner guests contributed between $1o,00o-$5o,000 each to the DNC...
...Not only may the DNC's 1996 campaign go down as one of the most corrupt in U.S...
...Greater Israel, indeed...
...No more than ten people came, in addition to Gore," he recalls...
...On December 17, 1993, two other Lippo employees sent $25,000 each to the DNC...
...Trade Representative, and whose decisions could affect Lippo interests...
...if it were dropped into lake Michigan it would disappear from sight without a trace...
...At the same time, his wife sent an additional $2,500 to the Missouri Democrats...
...Sheryl M. Henderson helped in the research for this article...
...The DNC audit also failed to note that Chung contributed $2,000 to Sen...
...Indeed, at his March so, 1997 press conference Clinton said that if he'd known about Chinese efforts to buy influence, he might have changed his policy toward Peking...
...John Kerry of Massachusetts, and $1,0oo to California Democrat Loretta Sanchez, who defeated Bob Doman in a still-disputed race...
...In 1996, when she wrote two $5,000 checks to the DNC, she gave no address, and may not have even made out the checks...
...The politicians really get annoyed then...
...In November 1996 the DNC engaged the outside auditing firm of Ernst & Young to examine a sampling of contributions made between 1994 and 1996, and determine whether funds from foreign nationals or foreign interests had made their way into DNC coffers...
...The DNC explained that contributions were scrutinized if they were over $1o,000, or if they were connected in any way to a trio of ethnic Chinese fund-raisers closely connected to the government of the People's Republic of China: former Lippo Bank official John Huang...
...Many of them were Republicans, so the debate was lively and frank...
...At virtually the same time the DNC announced its haphazard audit that glossed over Lippo contributions, Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr served subpoenas on several Lippo officials, who, a congressional investigor said, may have information on the retainer paid by the Lippo Group to former associate attorney general and Clinton crony Webb Hubbell after he was forced to resign from the Justice Department...
...2 is a private investor, well-connected to Wall Street Republicans...
...Ma variously listed his employer as Lippo, Tati Development Company, or China Pacific Holding, Ltd...
...Other examples abound...
...Her first contribution, a mere $500, lists the name of her company, but in a May 1994 contribution she lists a job with the state Department of Children Services...
...But the story is far from over...
...We're beginning to see the outlines of a whole series of potentially criminal relationships that so Er have received scant mention in the press...
...I am especially concerned not only about allegations that the People's Republic of China used money to gain access, acquire information, and influence policy, but that other individuals with criminal pasts may have had access to the President and Vice President and used it to acquire information or political influence...
...citizens...
...From this relatively small sampling we have identified an additional $562437 in dubious contributions that were undeclared by the DNC...
...Take Lily Lee Chen...
...Also unnoticed and unretumed by the DNC: Azima's November 16,1994 check for $3,000 to the Congressional Black Caucus and $7,500 to the Missouri Democratic Victory Fund in September 1994...
...Congressional investigators believe that Lippo's campaign contributions were intended to "grease the skids" for U.S...
...But in August 1996 Liu gave another $10,000...
...Given the spotty reporting by political parties to the FEC, especially on contributions to 28 August 1997 The American Spectator state and local campaigns, it's likely that the true scope of these unidentified contributions is much greater...
...Some 1,2oo of 2.7 million contributions were even27 tually reviewed...
...It is clear to all knowledgeable in military matters that, for immutable strategic reason, Israel cannot for any foreseeable future abandon or yield military control of Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank") and of the Golan Heights...
...One wonders whether those who keep talking about "Greater Israel" and who wish to pressure Israel to divest itself of a big chunk of its territory are aware of it...
...Arab propaganda has it that the two stripes on the flag of Israel, above and below the star of David, represent the Nile and the Euphrates River, respectively, and signify Israel's expansionist desire, to form an "empire" that would supposedly reach from Cairo to Baghdad...
...REIWS JOINT/ The DNC audit also failed to note all the money thrown at Democrats by Chinese businessman Johnny Chung, who showed up no fewer than fifty-one times at the White House and where on one occasion handed a $5o,000 check to Hillary Clinton's chief of staff...
...This ad has been published and paid for by FLAME , I want to help in the publication of these ads and I in clarifying the situation in the Middle East...
...It s a myth...
...The Golan Heights were part of Palestine...
...So we decided to go back and audit the auditors...
...But FEC records show that checks were frequently written to the same campaigns on the same dates by several different Lippo employ-ees, a clear sign that the contributions were part of a coordinated fundraising effort...
...The Times also reported that Azima organized a Kansas City fundraiser shortly before the 1996 election that netted Democrats $250,000...
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...Azima contributed $16,000 through a second company he controlled, Buffalo Airways...
...These individuals made substantial donations to the DNC, in exchange for favors from the White House...
...This brings the total to $349,785...
...This brings the grand total of tainted contributions unidentified and unrefunded by the DNC to $562437...
...According to the Post, Azima's Global International Airways, which owed the bank some $1 million when the bank went under, had been contracted for services by the CIA in the early to mid-198o's...
...California businessman Johnny Chung...
...Since Chung is the U.S...
...Why, then, did the DNC boast on Mays that it had raised more than $4 million at a recent gala...
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...spotlight for allegedly leasing a Boeing 707 to the Iran-contra venture run by Oliver North and Richard Secord...
...Nothing illegal had happened, Romer seemed to say, and in any case it won't be repeated...
...Using publicly available FEC records and documents released by the DNC, we created a data base using only the individuals identified by the DNC auditors as KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator...
...business partner of a top Chinese "princeling" (see "While America Sleeps;' TAS, June 1997), it's possible Chung was fronting for Chinese Communist interests...
...Most people don't realize how small it really is...
...TAS obtained a list of thirty Asian-American business leaders who attended a Huang-organized White House dinner hosted by Vice President Al Gore on September 27, 1993...
...As TAS went to press, the DNC claimed it has returned half of the money, leaving $1.5 million that would be returned once the party raised sufficient funds...
...And Israel also repossessed the provinces of Judea/Samaria, (the "West Bank"), and the eastern part of Jerusalem, which had been occupied by the Jordanians nineteen years earlier, when they invaded the just new-born Jewish state...
...Nowhere in any documents of the Jewish state, in any statement by even the most "radical" spokesman can reference to anything like that be found...
...But its audit somehow missed another $32,000 donated by Chung and four of his employees, including a $1o,000 check Chung wrote on September 27,1996, to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and a $15,000 check he wrote on October 16, 1996, to the DNC...
...See for yourself/ ^ My contribution is in the amount of $75 or more...
...And despite the John Huang connection, none of the money has been returned...
...The question now is what Azima was hoping to accomplish by his donations to the DNC and his coffees with Clinton...
...As early as September 20, 1996, the party began identifying moneys for return—a full month before John Huang's questionable fundraising practices were first publicly reported...
...Israel a Borders...
...In 1994 CATIC diverted sensitive machine tools purchased from a bomber plant in the U.S...
...Unanswered in the DNC's acceptance of Azima's hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations is how, given his alleged involvement in past national security matters, he was able to enter the White House and meet with the president and key officials at a time when his purported partner, Tamraz, was being barred from meeting with those same people for national security reasons...
...Ted Kennedy, who has returned the entire $6,000 he received...
...3,000 came from Agus Setiawan, a Lippo Bank employee...
...support for their oil project...
...Stripes on the Flag...
...On June 11,1997, House Rules Committee chairman Gerald Solomon revealed that he had recently "received reports from government sources that say there are electronic intercepts which provide evidence confirming that John Huang committed economic espionage and breached our national security by passing classified information to his former employer, the Lippo Group...
...France is twenty times as large as Israel, California fifteen times as large, Syria about seven times as large, and "tiny' Ecuador ten times as large...
...Israel's alleged expansionist ambitions have long been a staple of Arab anti-Israel propaganda...
...TAS has discovered, however, that in 1995-1996 Trie also gave 12 contributions totaling $9,060 to various Democratic candidates...
...In that war, Israel conquered the Gaza Strip, the vast Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights...
...You change things so it doesn't happen again...
...They enable us to pursue these goals and to publish these messages in national newspapers and magazines...
...INTER IRAN-CONTRA The case of Iran-contra figure Farhad Azima, who runs an air leasing company in Kansas City, Missouri, has received scant attention...
...Israel is so small that its area is less than half the size of San Bernardino County California...
...Israel's current borders are the result of the 1948 War of Independence, in which six Arab armies invaded the new-born state, but were utterly defeated, and the 1967 Six-Day War, in which those same armies once again invaded Israel...
...Yeh contributed $1o,000 to the DNC and another $5,000 to Chuck Robb, Jim Sasser, and other Democrats—none of which has been returned —while Dequeljoe and his wife gave a total of $50,5oo to these and other campaigns, apparently at the prodding of John Huang...
...While the NSC maintained its professional approach, and vetoed Tamraz's entree to the White House, Clinton acceded to Fowler's request, met with Tamraz three times, and ordered a re-evaluation of his Caspian Sea oil pipeline project, over the NSC's objections...
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