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...away as Washington. If Zhu the moderate was talking war, what were the hawks in the People's Liberation Army planning? U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen, touring Asia, said Beijing's "threat of the use of force is counterproductive." Later, in Washington, the State Department summoned China's ambassador, Li Zhaoxing, to protest China's threats and ask Beijing to tone down its rhetoric...
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela advocated continuing ambitious efforts to acknowledge past atrocities at this year's Rama Mehta Lecture, as Sheila Sisulu, South Africa's ambassador to the U.S., listened from the audience...
According to an internal NDI e-mail message sent to staff members, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Richard C. Holbrooke personally asked Nash to serve in Kosovo...
...given Karol Wojtyla's job description and his trip's locus, little else about it is personal or simple. A billion Roman Catholics and innumerable other Christians will follow his every encounter in the footsteps of their Saviour. Many Jews will cautiously applaud what Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, calls "with all due respect...the climax" of recent Catholic-Jewish amity. That's the upside. The downside? It will be a security nightmare and a diplomatic high-wire act. Says Israeli police official David Tsur: "It touches all the nerves we can think...
...relatives during the occupation. Gusmao immediately jumped off the podium and plunged into the crowd, arguing, calming and pleading until, single-handedly, he had pacified several hundred people. Then he led three of the protesters through the throng to meet Wahid. "It was amazing," says Peter Galbraith, former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, now working for the U.N. in East Timor. "There was this woman politely asking Wahid to know where her husband was buried, and he replied that he would do what he could, and Xanana sat beside them smiling...