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...have Americans been wholly absent. According to Western diplomats and business travelers, agents of Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Boeing, General Motors and others have been spotted in the first-class hotels of Baghdad and Amman, Jordan, where many of the meetings with Iraqi trade officials take place. State Department officials say they have investigated these claims and found no sign of wrongdoing by U.S. companies, who are "officially discouraged" from making such contacts. Says a State Department official: "The Iraqis are engaged in a constant effort to get companies to deal with them quickly. They want them to believe the train...
...extreme left. During the court's conference-room discussions of each case, he will always speak last. Indeed, in the past, the junior member was said to serve as something of an errand boy, "ordering out" for salient documents, expected to open the door for colleagues and, absent a staff member, taking their messages...
...Absent any discipline, warfare becomes an extension of crime by other means. The modern military model is the neighborhood gang, brothers and cousins, roaming, rule breaking, terrorizing. "Youth has no future in Rwanda," observes Jean-Claude Willame, professor of African politics at Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain. "To a certain extent, they don't give a damn about those Hutu and Tutsi things. They're paid...
Beys accused Sayeed of "pardoning many people [`s absences]," Label of "abdicating his attendance responsibilities" to Ebery and Ebery of "being careless and marking a lot of people absent who weren't absent...
...March, amid rumors that some members of thedepartment would like to see Hughes Hallett stayat Arizona permanently, Bridget Neale '91, now afirst-year math graduate student at BostonUniversity, urged others to write letters insupport of the absent professor. The student'seffort resulted in more than 20 letters expressinghope that Hallett would return in the fall...