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To: kumar who wrote (44568)	9/16/2002 9:59:57 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Red Adair" (I think) Yes, the one who helped to cope with the burning oil fields set on fire by Saddam in the 1991 war: redadair.com India is mentioned at the bottom of this page.

To: kumar who wrote (44568)	9/16/2002 10:50:54 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

American Business is in India big time. Yes they are, Kumar, and most of them make sure the have Indian partners with lots of clout, who know how much and what kind of payoff is needed to the Politicians and Bureaucrats. Lets face it, Kumar, "Bakeesh" is a way of life in India. Court systems are all "Homer" to some degree, but the ones in India, etc, love to nail Foreigners. You get a better shake in American courts than anywhere else, IMO. I had a company that built and installed cabinets in Southern California for 10 years, and a lot of people suggested I build them "over the border." I never did. Everybody I knew who went down there and did business got screwed, one way or the other. It is tough enough for the small guy to do business in this country. Overseas is a "Big Boys" business, where you can take in local partners who know who to pay off, and it you go to court, can get a semi-fair deal. Even then, these "Peoples States", like the ones most of South America has had, may confiscate your Business. If you want to read a picture of what happened to Foreign Businessmen when Iran had their revolution, Read "WhirlWind", by James Clavell

To: kumar who wrote (44568)	9/17/2002 10:19:58 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Re: Bhopal I read the following book on this disaster a while back amazon.fr While I expected a nightmarish réquisitoire leveled against "American Capitalism", it was in fact a fascinating tale of what went inevitably wrong. There was plenty of blame to go around, but if one has worked abroad one can imagine the difficulties of carrying out such a project involving extremely dangerous chemicals on a large scale, and the eventual disconnect "back in the world" which would dictate the kinds of stupid cost cutting measures that were taken which fatally weakened plant security. The book was written by a pair journalists, one of whom runs a charitable organization with his wife and they donate a good part of the rights of their books to helping those and their families who were victims of the disaster. citedelajoie.org The book is now available in English on amazon, but I haven't looked thru that version.