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...threats are far from being manifest. Currently, none of these nations has a reliable long-range missile that could strike the U.S., and North Korea is the only one to have test-launched a long-range missile, which failed in its single launch attempt. Due to the efforts of Ambassador William Perry, North Korea has agreed to halt testing as long as negotiations with the U.S. proceed...
...Secretary of State. B) Ambassador. C) Surgeon General. D) Postmaster General. E) Poet Laureate...
...Sierra Leone peacekeeping debacle will weigh heavily on the mind of Washington's U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke as he meets Thursday with Congolese president Laurent Kabila to discuss plans to deploy a U.N. force in the similarly troubled Congo later this year. "Holbrooke has been warning for some time of the danger of sending in forces that are too small to deal with the scale of the problem and therefore vulnerable to attacks and kidnapping, which appears to be exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone," says Dowell. "But it's no simple matter to expand the peacekeeping force, because...
Fortunately she had a way to get their attention: by using Khayam as an ambassador. With the tame cheetah at her side, she toured the farmlands. "It was tough at first," she admits, "but the more the farmers learned about cheetahs, the more they listened." She told them that cattle are not the cheetah's favorite food; if the farmers kept antelope and other wild animals on their land, the cats would be more likely to leave the cattle alone. She gave farmers guard dogs to help keep cheetahs away...
...that there are 200 Americans left to evacuate," an intercept reads. "Gunners Six to GSF Commander. Bring personnel up through the building. Do not let them [the South Vietnamese] follow too closely. Use Mace if necessary, but do not fire on them." Despite fire fights around the building, Ambassador Martin, the other remaining Americans and the luckiest South Vietnamese nationals climbed the ladder and made it out safely...