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...world's largest media firms, the company signed a letter of intent with General Electric to merge its U.S. movie and TV businesses with GE's NBC. The result would be a new media giant that puts Vivendi's assets - Universal Pictures, theme parks in California, Florida, Spain and Japan, and four U.S. cable-TV stations - together with...
...Franco-German axis - will be fully mustered in Iraq under the command of Polish General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz to help the Yanks and Brits shoulder what looks like a long and hazardous occupation. Serving alongside 2,300 Polish soldiers will be 1,600 soldiers from Ukraine, 1,300 from Spain, 470 from Bulgaria, 300 from Hungary, 220 from Romania and 100 from Latvia, as well as about 1,200 from countries in Central America. The Multinational Division Central South will control - nominally, at least - 80,000 sq km and 3 million people in south-central Iraq. Will the force make...
...already scared." That concern is not limited to Central Europe. In Japan in July, Diet members attached to its pacifist tradition came to blows with those who ultimately won a precedent-shattering vote to authorize putting Japanese troops into Iraq without a U.N. mandate. And in Spain, Prime Minister José María Aznar accused opposition leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of "laying his hopes on the coffins of Spanish soldiers" to prove that Spain's involvement is unwise. But despite the death of Spanish naval captain Manuel Martín-Oar, 56, in last month...
...from the United States, its largest market. But business is finally starting to sparkle again at this 35-year-old company, which employs 130 people at its factory in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. Orders are up not only domestically and from the U.S., but also from France, Spain, Britain - even China. Instead of closing for its annual vacation in July and August, the company went on three shifts to keep up with the influx of new business. "We see the light at the end of the tunnel," says a relieved Frank Mader, co-owner and president, surveying...
MADRID The antifur lobby is virtually nonexistent in Spain, so designers are scoring with fox, sheared mink and textured leathers like Ferragamo's embossed calfskin jacket, above...