The conditions involving the sale of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. were detailed in U.S. documents marked "confidential." Such records are regularly guarded as trade secrets, and it is highly unusual for them to be made public.
So how did they become public if it's so unusual?
118 posted on 02/22/2006 7:12:36 PM PST by Mo1
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