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Bush to Link Security, Economics at Meeting with Asian Leaders.

By Warren P. Strobel, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 18--BANGKOK, Thailand--President Bush will press the fellow Pacific Rim leaders he'll meet in Bangkok in a few days to expand the role of their economic club to focus more on terrorism and related security issues, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday.

Powell acknowledged that the U.S. initiative is controversial in some quarters, but said Bush would argue to the group, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, that security and economic prosperity wer

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