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JAMES C. HORMEL Clinton makes him first openly gay U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Or anywhere...
...member of the conservative groups Young Americans for Freedom and Students for a Just Peace, Rosen helped plan a pro-war teach-in in March 1971, to which the South Vietnamese ambassador was invited. The teach-in was disrupted when several hundred protesters filled the seats of Sanders Theatre, chanting and holding anti-war banners...
...China but of the U.S. Lax security at national weapons labs virtually invited Beijing to pick their pockets. For years officials ignored complaints that the labs were wide open, and no Administration bothered to bolster their feeble protective measures. "On the security breaches," says Winston Lord, former U.S. ambassador to China, "I say, Shame...
...President Clinton is supposed to be a lame duck, he doesn't seem to be showing any signs of lameness in matters big (as in Kosovo) or small (as in the appointment of James Hormel). On Friday Clinton installed the openly gay Hormel as the new U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg without the benefit of a Senate confirmation. Hormel, a respected philanthropist and former assistant dean at the University of Chicago Law School, has had his nomination bottled up since 1997 by Senate conservatives who vehemently oppose his gay-rights activism...
...months ago, Israel's former army chief, AMNON LIPKIN-SHAHAK, was putting himself forward as a future Prime Minister. Though his candidacy quickly flopped, the retired general may be up for a lesser but still desirable job: ambassador...