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When Alberta and Saskatchewan acceded to provincial status in 1905, and the country’s mining, lumber, paper, and pulp industries burgeoned, Laurier championed a new transcontinental railway that would take a more northerly route to serve them — the state-owned Canadian National Railway (C.N.R.)
Mitterrand was said to have used France's state-owned Elf energy group in 1992 to channel millions of dollars to Kohl's Christian Democratic Union in order to get him re-elected-an odd idea because Mitterrand was a socialist and Kohl the leader of Europe's most powerful conservative party.
A long piece alleges that Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and his cronies have plundered their country, pocketing millions from state-owned companies and foreign-currency reserves.
You might have thought that the kind of secrecy required for such a massive market manipulation was impossible in the modern information age--but Hamanaka pulled it off, partly by working through British intermediaries, but mainly through a covert alliance with Chinese firms (some of them state-owned).
The paper points out in its top paragraphs that state-owned Yugoslavian television called the flights "an international scandal," and that Milosevic's forces nevertheless continued their attacks on villages in the Kosovo area, driving more refugees into Albania.