"The governments getcoldfeet for one reason, Desertec needs too much support in tax money - all the public budgets are over borrowed - and tax money is not easily available, " Mr Fell said.
If the Russians refuse to accept the phraseology NATO offers them before July 8, when the alliance is to gather in Madrid to issue invitations, some Europeans could getcoldfeet.
Still, fearing that Rempel's editors might getcoldfeet, Jackson had arranged for an ideologically sympathetic "backup" -- in this case the conservative American Spectator's resident "hit man" David Brock -- to be given the same stories on an embargoed basis.