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...friend Audrey Hepburn, who had been UNICEF's goodwill ambassador, asked me to be co-host of the Danny Kaye International Children's Awards in Amsterdam and to take part in a UNICEF press conference. I told Audrey I didn't know much about UNICEF. She replied that all the reporters wanted to talk about was movies. She was right; they did want to talk about movies. But Audrey wouldn't let them. She was passionate and eloquent about the needs of children, and she wanted me to get involved as well. That was my moment of epiphany: I wanted...
...that is how I became a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in 1991. The agency representatives gave me a lot of homework: facts and figures and statistics. Just numbers, no faces. But when I went on my first mission, to Central America, I was finally able to put faces to numbers. That first trip in 1991 was a real education for me. I realized how easy it was to make contact with high government officials eager to meet "the Saint" and "James Bond." It was a wonderful way of getting my foot in the door and grabbing their attention...
...Fatah, is said to be ruled by a committee of wealthy civilians in Damascus. Nor does anyone really know very much about Yasser Arafat, though everyone in the Arab world knows who he is. As El Fatah grew and felt the need for a visible spokesman, he became its ambassador extraordinary to the Arab world, its chief fund raiser and its field commander in Jordan. Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar) sits at a wooden desk in his headquarters in Amman, dealing with a procession of couriers like a general on a field of battle, which in a sense...
...making," says Egyptian government spokesman Nabil Osman, "we listen to public opinion." In Jordan, authorities prevented a potentially volatile march on the Israeli embassy in Amman with a massive deployment of security forces. King Abdullah II's government says it is considering options including the expulsion of Israel's ambassador. Queen Rania, herself a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, even led one protest. Anger has turned to violence in some Middle Eastern countries. In the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, where the U.S. maintains a major naval facility, a demonstrator died after a throng of protesters broke through the gates...
...Were these motives enough for a made-in-Washington coup? Though there is no evidence that the U.S. played an active role, Assistant Secretary of State and former ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich told Time that he had, before the coup, met with several Venezuelan delegations in Washington, many of whom wanted help in ousting Ch?vez. While Reich concedes that the U.S. encouraged the demonstrations that led to the coup, "the U.S. had no association with this plot," he insists. "We told them, 'Sorry, we?re not in that business...