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...great ambassador for baseball and was a great player once, too, but an entire generation of fans is watching him play at a level far below his peak. If he wants to be remembered as a great ballplayer instead of merely an enduring one, maybe it's time to retire...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali's, maybe "Lewinsky felt it was inappropriate to conduct an interview in [U.N. ambassador Bill] Richardson's hotel room." --OIC interview...
...armed forces, which have a habit of intervening in Pakistani politics, are displeased with the Prime Minister, and some analysts fear that Nawaz Sharif's actions may increase friction between the pro-Western secularists and religious extremists within the ranks. Warns Maleeha Lodi, a newspaper editor and former ambassador to Washington: "Nawaz Sharif is trying to wrap himself in Islam. Perhaps he doesn't know that this will drive deeper wedges into a society that's already badly fragmented...
...RUBIN and Japanese Finance Minister KIICHI MIYAZAWA in San Francisco on Sept. 5, Miyazawa's office has dodged attempts to set further discussions with U.S. officials. And last Friday, on the eve of Obuchi's summit with BILL CLINTON, his chief Cabinet secretary abruptly canceled a meeting with U.S. Ambassador THOMAS FOLEY in Tokyo. The cancellation may have been partly in response to what Tokyo sees as a rather flaccid American response to North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan two weeks ago. For their part, U.S. officials fear that Japan's stonewalling may be a reflection...
...that all politics is local. Proving that point, Somerville mayor Michael Capuano [4] won the Democratic primary for O'Neill's old House seat (once also held by J.F.K.), swaying voters with aggressive campaigning. That tactic was better than that of his closest competition, former Boston mayor and Vatican ambassador Ray Flynn, who showed pictures of himself with the Pope and Mother Teresa...