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[email protected] SIXTY CENTS Elected Leaders Blast Bush on Sale of Ports to Arab Company By PAUL J. PEYTON President Bush would allow the sale vene congressional oversight hear- Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times of American ports to a foreign-based ings. He said he would support legis- AREA – Officials denounced Presi- company with ties to terrorism.” lation to freeze the agreement until dent George W. Bush and his admin- He said if the President “does not hearings are completed. istration for allowing six U.S. ports, change course,” he has asked Gover- President Bush has vowed to allow including several in New York and nor Corzine to exercise a provision in the deal to proceed, saying he would New Jersey, to be operated by Dubai the lease between the Port Authority veto any action by Congress to stop Ports World, a state-owned in the of New York and New Jersey and the the transaction. United Arab Emirates. Port Newark Container Terminal, the “I can understand why some in Dubai is seeking to purchase Brit- current operator at Port Newark, to Congress have raised questions about ish-owned Peninsular and Oriental give the Port Authority “the ability to whether or not our country will be Steam Navigation Co., which oper- void the provisions of the lease if the less secure as a result of this transac- ate commercial ports in Baltimore, transaction is contrary to public in- tion.