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-3- altogether. But when it came to the bribery, blackmail and bullying necessary to cover the war against Iraq with a UN figleaf, then money was no object. There were new aid packages - economic and military- for Ethiopia, Zaire and Colombia, as well as new World Bank credits and rescheduling of IMF loans. four billion dollars was drummed up for the disintegrating Soviet Union from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Egypt was forgiven 14 billion dollars of debt - seven billion to the US and seven billion to assorted Gulf States. The US paid US $ 187 million of what it owed to the UN itself. To remove the threat of a Chinese veto, that country was once again granted World Bank loans, and diplomatic sanctions were lifted as well. In contrast, when the representative of Yemen Voted against war he was told, " that was the most expensive 'no' vote you ever cast". Three days later, the US canceled its $ 70 million aid package to Yemen, and shortly afterwards some 900,000 Yemeni workers were summarily deported from Saudi Arabia. Hundreds of them were killed. In response to last week's raids on Baghdad, Abdul Aziz al- Rantisi, a leader of the Palestinian deportees in Lebanon, told Reuters news agency:

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