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Emirates firm offers to delay control of ports

Would step back now to reassure Congress

Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England (front center), yesterday in Washington, suggested that critics of the deal with the United Arab Emirates were 'paranoid.'
By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / February 24, 2006

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WASHINGTON -- A United Arab Emirates company offered late yesterday to delay taking control of cargo operations at six US ports in order to convince skeptics in Congress that the deal would not endanger national security, capping a day in which President Bush suggested that anti-Arab bias may be at the root of a bipartisan rebellion over the deal. (Full article: 1133 words)

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