I made another mistake above, talking about the Iranian reactor becoming on-line - its due for completion in 2-3 years. It is located at Bushehr.
Today, Tommy Suharto decides not to appeal his sentence for murdering the Supreme Court judge who convicted him for corruption. Poor Tommy thinks that there is a political climate in Indonesia at the moment which will render an appeal nugatory. I guess that climate is called "due process and rule of law."
President Bush has told the King of Jordan that Palestinian bombers from Hamas who killed 7 (?) people at Hebrew University in Israel have made him"very mad".
Richard Butler, the Australian former head of the UN weapons inspection in Iraq, has testified before a Congressional committee that Saddam Hussein has since the inspections were terminated is probably very close to developing a nuclear device. More reason for an attack on Iraq, since I personally do not want to see Tel Aviv reduced to cinders and glass.
North Korea and South Korea, at the ASEAN summit, are talking about joint representation athe the forthcoming Asia Games. The last time they did this was at the Sydney Olympics.
Scott Sullivan, former CFO of WorldCom, and David Myers, former controller, were arrested in Manhattan by the FBIfor their part in the company's bankruptcy. Some nice photos fo the two gentlemen being led away by agents appeared on the front cover of this morning's South China Morning Post. It seems to me that its not only the US which wants to get milage out of publicly humiliating these two as a deterrant to other execs.
Finally, Jiang Zemin, leader of the PRC, has been invited to go to GWB's ranch in Crawford, Texas, before the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum in Mexico in October this year. I think we can expect Jiang to do a Deng Ziao-peng and wear a cowboy hat
