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** Saddam Hussein's government systematically extorted billions of dollars in illegal payments from companies doing business with Iraq.
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** A defense lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants is kidnapped.
** Trials of Saddam Hussein: Three gunmen assassinate Adel al-Zubeidi, the defense lawyer for Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former Iraqi Vice President under Saddam Hussein.
** The former Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, has claimed in The Observer newspaper, that human rights abuses by members of the Government of Iraq are as bad now as they were in the time of Saddam Hussein.
** The tribunal trying Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants adjourned for a second time after hearing posthumous evidence.
** Deposed Iraq president Saddam Hussein has refused to attend his trial for crimes against humanity, throwing the sometimes chaotic Iraqi proceedings into further confusion.
** Ya Saddam, Noorderlicht, Leeuwarden, Hollande
** On NBC's " Meet the Press ," Vice President Richard Cheney cited the New York Times article, and accused Saddam of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past fourteen months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms.
** On CBS, President Bush said U. N. weapons inspectors, before they were denied access to Iraq in 1998, concluded that Saddam was " six months away from developing a weapon.
** and government
** The Commonwealth — UK government site
** The Central Military Commission ( a parallel organization of the government institution of the same name );
** The Post Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2011, soaring food prices, especially for grains, led to calls for the government to provide more immediate assistance to the population of more than 40 % in the " poverty tunnel " and to strike a " new deal " on agriculture policy and reform.
** Hangeul or han-geul in the Revised Romanization of Korean, which the South Korean government uses in all English publications and encourages for all purposes.
** Heads of government of Malawi
** Heads of government of Mozambique
** Heads of government of Angola ( see also: Prime Minister of Angola
** Heads of government of Cameroon
** Heads of government of the Central African Republic ( and Central African Empire )
** Heads of government of Chad
** Heads of government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
** Heads of government of the Republic of the Congo
** Heads of government of Equatorial Guinea
** Heads of government of Gabon
** Heads of government of São Tomé and Príncipe
** Heads of government of Algeria ( see also: Prime Ministers of Algeria
** Heads of government of Egypt
** Heads of government of Libya
** Heads of government of Morocco
** Heads of government of Botswana
** Heads of government of Lesotho
** Heads of government of Swaziland
** Heads of government of Benin
** Heads of government of Burkina Faso ( see also: Prime Minister of Burkina Faso ')
** Heads of government of Cape Verde ( see also: Prime Minister of Cape Verde ')
** and systematically
** Automatic test pattern generation, ATPG – generates pattern-data to systematically exercise as many logic-gates, and other components, as possible.
** and billions
** In the same year, South Korea repatriated 63 convicted Communist spies and thereafter provided billions of dollars ' worth of aid and trade to the North.
** and dollars
** Bahamian dollars per US dollar-1 ( 2008 ), 1 ( 2007 ), 1 ( 2006 ), 1 ( 2005 ), 1 ( 2004 )
** International dollars ( purchasing power parity method ) $ 24. 69 billion ( 2007 est.
** The westbound tube AKA the first tube of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel linking to Norfolk, Virginia and Hampton, Virginia opens at a cost of $ 44 million dollars.
** The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.
** A 6. 25 Richter scale earthquake in Nicaragua kills 5, 000 – 12, 000 people in the capital, Managua ; President Somoza is later accused of pocketing millions of dollars worth of foreign aid intended for relief.
** President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system.
** CBS sells the New York Yankees for $ 10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner ( 3. 2 million dollars less than CBS bought the Yankees for ).
** Federal Express purchases Flying Tiger Line for approximately 800 million U. S. dollars.
** Money: 1. 642 million dollars of the Soviet Republic.
** One further variation is in Canada, where the CBC Television / Télévision de Radio-Canada network is partly funded by taxpayer dollars, and otherwise supports itself with commercial advertising revenues as it competes with other free over-the-air commercial networks.
** AR-450A $ 20 million ( 35 % federal dollars ) 2007 ( includes $ 17 million for ROW )
** John Middleton, " Ethics and tax dollars ", Citizens Against Government Waste ( an organization backed by Microsoft and the tobacco industry ), May 1, 2004.
** The building was a converted church, which was valued at $ 180, 000 1973 dollars.
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