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...Iranian relations. “I think letting people see, talking to them, engaging them—that has a chance of having some impact,” said Allison, who—like Professor Carter—was as an assistant defense secretary under Clinton. The Israeli ambassador to the U.S. criticized the council Friday for its “terrible mistake” of hosting Ahmadinejad, drawing a comparison between the invitation to the Iranian chief and a hypothetical invite to Hitler in the 1930s. But the president of the Harvard Islamic Society, Ali A. Zaidi...
...opposition sustained a serious blow last February when its key leader, Altynbek Sarsenbayev - who had been Nazarbayev's Information Minister, secretary of the Security Council, and ambassador to Moscow - and two associates were murdered by a group of officers belonging to the National Security Committee (KNB), heir to the Soviet-era KGB. Late last month, a court found Yerzhan Utembayev, the former Senate chief of staff, guilty of putting out the contract on Sarsenbayev "for reasons of personal enmity," and sentenced him to 20 years. Nine others received sentences ranging from three years to life for complicity in the murder...
...could have managed to inflict several mortal wounds on himself and then shoot himself in the back of the head. The opposition sustained a serious blow last February when its key leader, Altynbek Sarsenbayev - who had been Nazarbayev's Information Minister, secretary of the Security Council, and ambassador to Moscow - and two associates were murdered by a group of officers belonging to the National Security Committee (knb), heir to the Soviet-era kgb. Late last month, a court found Yerzhan Utembayev, the former Senate chief of staff, guilty of putting out the contract on Sarsenbayev "for reasons of personal enmity...
...Simn Bolvar, South America's 19th century independence hero. "Chvez has always seen himself as that kind of heroic man of action on horseback," says Alberto Barrera, co-author of the biography Hugo Chvez sin Uniforme (Hugo Chvez Out of Uniform). Venezuela's ambassador to the U.N., Francisco Arias, a former classmate who took part with Chvez in a 1992 coup attempt, says that when the two men went through military training together, "Hugo was the one cadet who stood up to the awful hazing" at the academy...
...critics say it too often makes it hard to take him seriously as a statesman. While Ahmadinejad wowed U.S. audiences with his verbal dexterity last week, Chvez seemed only to enhance his reputation for gratuitous Bush baiting. After Chvez's speech at the General Assembly, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, called the performance "a comic-strip approach to international affairs." A product of Venezuela's llanos, or rural plains, Chvez patterns his style after the straight-talking llaneros (cowboys) he grew up with. (One of his favorite American films is Clint Eastwood's Pale...