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...down as constitutionally mandated in October, of stacking the caretaker government and the electoral commission with partisans. Iajuddin was made the head of the interim government, for instance, even though he is a member of the BNP. The accusation of unfair play was echoed by diplomats such as U.S. Ambassador Patricia A. Butenis, who observed that the interim body "has not always conducted itself neutrally, and the nation has suffered as a result." The Awami League also accused the BNP of altering the voter roll in an attempt to rig the election. The National Democratic Institute, a U.S.-based monitoring...
...Juan del Sur's Sandinista Mayor, Eduardo Holmann, says the event led to a heated phone exchange with U.S. Ambassador Paul Trivelli. "He told me you don't have lynch mobs in a civilized country, and I told him, 'Yeah, didn't you use to lynch blacks in the United States...
...these are testimony to Hepburn's twin legacies: her eternal, effortless chic in movies and her later, to her more important, career as an ambassador and consciousness-raiser for UNICEF. She often spoke of her lifelong craving for affection and her need to give it. She knew both privilege and want, as a baroness' daughter who nearly starved in the Netherlands during the German occupation in World War II. You can see why Hepburn essentially retired from movies at 38 to care for her two sons, and why the starving children of Africa and Asia were...
...Downing; the alacrity with which the U.S. drops Blair by agreeing to a U.N resolution to set up a special tribunal for aggressors in Iraq in order to prove its new enlightened foreign policy credentials. "We're going to say some unpleasant things about you," the U.S. ambassador in London tells Blair. "But we don't really mean them...
...Israeli official speaking off the record said: "She's an amazing, eloquent and elegant lady, but she can be as tough as nails. She knows what she wants when she goes into a meeting. She's decided beforehand what's possible and what isn't." Daniel Ayalon, ex-Israeli ambassador to Washington, who has been friends with Rice for 10 years, adds, "She has gravitas. She's grown into this job in a magnificent way. She has toughness and grit...