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...Holocaust Art Restitution Project, a group set up last fall in Washington to document Jewish cultural losses under Nazism, got into the act and started urging MOMA and its chairman, Ronald Lauder, not to return the paintings. (As it happens, Lauder was ambassador to Austria from 1986 to 1987 and is a notable Schiele collector.) In response the Leopold Foundation proposed that an international tribunal be set up to examine the Schieles' true ownership, and it pledged to comply with the tribunal's findings. Constance Lowenthal, director of the World Jewish Congress's Commission for Art Recovery (whose chairman...
...peripheral imbroglio, the fact that the late Ambassador M. Larry Lawrence fabricated information about his past would never have been revealed [PUBLIC EYE, Dec. 22]. People can get away with telling stories because the recipients of these tales deceive themselves as much as the liars do. As head of an executive search firm, I find it necessary to warn candidates pointedly in my first meeting with them that I will verify all the claims they make about their credentials. Without this warning, some people would brazenly continue the interview process with little concern for accuracy. STANLEY HERZ Somers...
Washington was slow to grasp the problem. Clinton had allowed his embassy in Seoul (as well as in Tokyo) to go without an ambassador for a year. Not that the Koreans were helping. For months, they had refused to admit their problems or even provide credible accounting of their assets and liabilities. By November the embattled government of Kim Young Sam was refusing to explain to U.S. officials just how much money was left in its foreign-currency reserve. Along with negotiators from the IMF, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers pushed Seoul to clarify its reserve positions...
...Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson "and a number of other very, very senior people are in the works and may be here in January," Campion said...
...arrears to the organization before Washington?s demand to have its dues lowered would be considered. "The European Union wishes to make clear that it will only agree to a reopening of discussions after the United States ... respects its financial obligations under the U.N. Charter," said Luxembourg ambassador Jean-Louis Wolzfeld, which, in diplomatic circles, amounts to a public tongue-lashing...