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Anderson was appointed the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal following the missile crisis...
Both U.S. Ambassador to China Clark T. Randt and Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Lorne W. Craner have discussed Yang’s status with senior Chinese officials...
...Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense and arguably the Bush administration's most ardent champion of Indonesia. "We've been talking with them for a long time about the seriousness of this problem, and the need to take it on seriously," said Wolfowitz, who served as the U.S. ambassador in Jakarta from 1986 to 1989. "While they've made progress, there's still obviously a lot more to do and maybe this will serve as a wake-up call for them...
...DIED. WALTER ANNENBERG, 94, publishing magnate, philanthropist and art connoisseur; in Wynnewood, Pa. After inheriting the Philadelphia Inquirer from his father, he founded two hit magazines, Seventeen in 1944 and TV Guide in 1953. One of the world's wealthiest men (estimated net worth: $4 billion), Annenberg served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's under Nixon and sometimes used his journalistic clout to settle political and personal scores. He once barred his TV stations from airing a documentary critical of Nixon. Among his gifts: a $1 billion collection of Impressionist paintings to New York City's Metropolitan...
...DIED. WALTER ANNENBERG, 94, American media magnate, philanthropist, art collector, and confidant to several postwar Republican presidents, who from 1969 to 1974 served as Richard Nixon's Ambassador to Britain; in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Annenberg's flagship publication was the ubiquitous TV Guide, which he founded in 1954 and which hit a circulation peak of nearly 20 million in the mid-1970s...