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Article: London Mayor Lashes U.S. Ambassador as a 'Crook'; U.S. Refusal to Pay Quarter-Million Dollars in Car Fees Prompts New Outburst From Livingstone
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- The Washington Post
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- March 29, 2006
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The mayor of London considered the virtues of the U.S. ambassador
to Britain: "A chiseling little crook," Ken Livingstone concluded of
Robert Holmes Tuttle on Monday, further dismissing the colonials'
latest representative to Her Majesty's realm as a "car salesman."
Though Livingstone is known for contentious remarks -- he
recently likened a Jewish newspaper reporter to a concentration camp
guard -- splashing such verbal mud on Tuttle caused a flurry of
amusement, embarrassment and tut-tutting among the British. Tuttle is
a noted friend of President Bush and, it must be said, a purveyor of
automobiles.
At issue is the U.S. government's refusal to pay more than a
quarter of a million ...