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Loral Space and Communications has hit hard times in recent years. On June 28, a Sea Launch Russian Zenit-3SL rocket failed to put the Loral Telstar 18 satellite into a proper orbit. Loral officials stated the big telecommunications satellite had enough on-board fuel to reach a proper orbit but the failure typifies a long series of wrong turns for the ailing satellite firm. In 2002, Loral Space reached a settlement with the State Department over charges of passing advanced military technology to the Chinese Army. Loral agreed to pay $20 million in fines, but did not admit nor deny wrongdoing....

Maverick presidential candidate Ralph Nader is accusing the Kerry campaign of launching a "Watergate"-style dirty tricks operation in a bid to keep him off the ballot in November. Nader personally leveled the allegation in a conversation with John Kerry Tuesday morning, and detailed the exchange later in the day for national radio host Sean Hannity. "I said, 'You better look and see what your Democrats are doing here because they can get in trouble'. . . . I told him, 'This could be a kind of Watergate.'" Nader said that Kerry has "got these rambunctious, aggressive underlings of his" who...