11.   Okuda is known as a risk-taker comfortable with international dealings and extensive political connections, who is capable of taking the conservative auto giant in new directions.

12.   Western diplomats and U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq fear the deal could make Saddam even more adversarial in his international dealings.

13.   It denied that the Panamanian firm was part of Fininvest, saying only that Fininvest used it in international financial dealings.