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When President Clinton chose MADELEINE ALBRIGHT over GEORGE MITCHELL and RICHARD HOLBROOKE to be Secretary of State, both men took the disappointment graciously and then devoted themselves to thorny problems--Mitchell in Northern Ireland, Holbrooke in Bosnia, Kosovo and Cyprus. Now, with U.N. Ambassador BILL RICHARDSON expected to move to the Energy Department, friends of Holbrooke are lobbying Clinton to appoint him to the post. Clinton admires Holbrooke's negotiating skills and his ability to "rattle the china," as a top White House official put it. Also, Holbrooke is close to AL GORE. But Mitchell is also being mentioned, though...
...That was given by the Sudanese government to my grandfather, who was ambassador to the U.S. in the 1960s. My grandfather then gave it to me when I was preparing to come to America," el-Gaili says...
Asked if he considers himself a present-day Sudanese ambassador, el-Gaili laughs...
Last fall, the Turkish government endowed million dollar chairs at universities across the nation for the purpose of "revealing the truth about Turkey," says Turkish Ambassador Nusret Kandemir...
Since he graduated from Harvard College, Elliot Richardson, this year's Harvard Law School (HLS) Class Day speaker, has used his trademark willpower as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Secretary of Defense; Attorney General of Massachusetts and later the United States; ambassador to various countries; and, on and off, as an associate or a partner in Boston and Washington law firms...