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...right direction, and right now our cup is more than half full. Given the determination and goodwill pervading this country, in time it will overflow. Daryl O'Connor Bryanston, South Africa Bolton 's Image Problem Re Your story on the controversy surrounding John Bolton, Bush's choice as ambassador to the U.N. [May 2]: Does the U.S. really want a contender for worst boss to represent it to the rest of the world? A former colleague called him a "kiss-up, kickdown sort of guy." Too many of us know the type. All of us should feel the injustice every...
...What message are we sending [when] we have sought to appoint an ambassador to the United Nations who himself has been accused of being arrogant, of not listening to his friends, of acting unilaterally, of bullying those who do not have the ability to properly defend themselves?" GEORGE VOINOVICH, pivotal Ohio Republican Senator on the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee, explaining why he objected to the nomination of John R. Bolton for ambassador to the U.N. He nonetheless let it move to the full Senate...
...sides?in public, at least. "Our alliance has never been stronger," a senior U.S. State Department official said last week. "The steady pace of visits and consultations is evidence of that." But there's also plenty of evidence of ongoing divisiveness. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, a former ambassador to Seoul who now leads U.S. efforts to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, recently met over dinner with the editors of several South Korean online media organizations to try to bridge some of the gaps. One journalist asked why the U.S. didn't just accept that North Korea...
...your story on the controversy surrounding John Bolton, Bush's choice as ambassador to the U.N. [May 2]: Does the U.S. really want a contender for worst boss to represent it to the rest of the world? A former colleague called him a "kiss-up, kickdown sort of guy." Too many of us know the type. All of us should feel the injustice every time that sort of person is rewarded. The U.S. has an image problem in much of the world. We're seen as out of control, arrogant and a bully. Yet the Administration wants...
...used his common touch to increase the accessibility of the office; in Singapore. A former journalist who scored an international exclusive with an interview of then General Suharto following Indonesia's bloody coup of 1966, Wee went into politics in 1973 and served as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to South Korea and Japan before being tapped to become the city-state's fourth President. Wee "took to diplomacy like a duck to water," said Deputy Prime Minister Shanmugam Jayakumar, and was eulogized by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as a "true Singaporean...