Riches and Troops Analysts in this country say that Mr. Taylor has granted lucrative concessions to a number of foreign diamond and gold exporters, particularly from Germany and France.

Along the way he also became wealthy, and currently has significant real estate holdings and lucrative logging concessions.

Moreover, New York City officials are agreeing to lucrative concessions to keep financial services companies from leaving the city.

Thompson is scheduled to go before state gaming regulators today to be licensed as vice president of a company that operates the lucrative concession at the Las Vegas airport.

In most cases, the largest and most lucrative logging concessions went to members of the island's political and business elites.

These lucrative concessions often returned little profit to the state-owned firm while producing windfalls for the family middlemen.

(This tradition is going strong today in Russia and France, whose Iraq policies seem driven at least in part by oil companies that were granted lucrative concessions by Saddam Hussein.)

Today, the Khmer Rouge functions to a large degree as a business venture, granting lucrative concessions to companies, most of them from Thailand, involved in gem-mining and logging.

Mr. Sioeng, 51, has a lucrative concession to sell Chinese cigarettes in several countries.

Your allegation that lucrative concessions, including hefty commissions, were paid by Government-owned industries to relatives of high officials, is unfounded and balderdash.