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Later in the day the president toured a Ford manufacturing plant. Tour is perhaps a generous term. That's what it was called on the schedule and that's what the workers at the plant were expecting, but Bush had other ideas. He was running uncharacteristically late for the rigidly on-time President. He left a lunch with Mbeki fifty minutes off the mark, and made up for it by cutting 80 minutes of personal time, but he saw a chance to clip a little more time by speeding up the tour...
After greeting some enthusiastic workers, many of whom showed Bush the multi-part handshake of the shop floor, he was off like a shot. Bush rushed so quickly through the plant that the photographers ushered in to capture the photo-op were sent scrambling, backing up with such furry to get out of his way that one nearly clipped the first lady. Clearly the president's torn calf muscle is healing nicely. "Was that a tour?" joked a White House aide when the clatter was over...
...Afterward, the president sat with workers to hear about the plant's AIDS awareness program, a model in a country that some have accused of acting too slowly to admit and embrace the problem. Ford blew through the taboos surrounding the disease, pushing employees to get themselves and their families tested...
...Those who have witnessed North Korean arms-manufacturing operations are not surprised that Japan is a source of components. Kim Do Sung, who defected from the North in 1997 and now goes by a pseudonym to protect relatives back home, says he worked for nine years at Plant 38, a huge armaments factory in the city of Huichon in the northern province of Jaggang. Kim says the vast majority of the computer chips and electronic components used in missile guidance systems there were Japanese. He recalls unloading a shipment of equipment from Japan that was like a Christmas stocking...
...CHARGED. PLATON LEBEDEV, 43, billionaire associate of Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky; with fraud; in Moscow. Authorities are investigating Lebedev for the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. The day after Lebedev's arrest, Khodorkovsky, chairman of oil giant Yukos, was questioned by state prosecutors. Khodorkovsky has angered the Kremlin with his plans to fund opposition parties in this winter's parliamentary elections...