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Bean said students, as well as faculty andstaff, complained that Ambassador did not pickthem up in a timely manner and refused to acceptvouchers as payment...
...shows that the international community is no longer willing to overlook human rights violations simply because the people who committed them continue to have influence in their home countries," Myers said.ReutersUP IN ARMS: Supporters of General Augusto Pinochet display signs during a protest outside the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Santiago yesterday...
Among his other activities has been service as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 1961-1963. Galbraith also served on the National Defense Advisory Commission and as Director of the Strategic Bombing Survey...
Lott was also joined by a majority of his fellow Republicans in a spate of anti-gay amendments to federal spending bills. And in one of the most inane displays of anti-gay prejudice, the Senate has refused to consider the nomination of James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg because he is gay and proud. Meanwhile, legislation that would protect gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation continues to languish in committee...
...Rwanda. How to manage that? By pettifogging. By arguing about semantics: the Clinton way. His Administration, pressed to honor the 1948 Genocide Convention (not to mention human decency) by intervening, quibbled at a furious rate about the meaning of the word genocide. Madeleine Albright, who was Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. in 1994, temporized as the death toll in Rwanda climbed into the hundreds of thousands. It was, as Gourevitch writes, "the absolute low point of her career as a stateswoman." What works first for tragedy will serve later for farce. The casuistry pressed into service to dodge...