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...land that gave birth to the cuckoo clock seems finally to have figured out what time it is. Switzerland's new ambassador in Washington, Alfred Defago, has correctly deduced that he needs the best p.r. advice Swiss francs can buy. So he has turned to Jay Footlik, who recently rounded off more than three years as the Clinton White House's chief liaison to America's Jewish community. Footlik has begun helping the envoy orchestrate a campaign of meetings with Jewish groups that began shortly before the High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur...
...with Louis Gossett Jr., as well as in TV ads for McDonald's and American Airlines. He recently helped pave the way for Defago to appear before the Chicago Board of Rabbis and admit to Switzerland's numerous transgressions during and after World War II. So far, the new ambassador's shtick is playing a lot better than that of his predecessor, Carlo Jagmetti, who resigned in disgrace after saying that Switzerland was in a war it must "fight and win" and that its critics "cannot be trusted...
Walter Carrington '52, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, will be making a return to Harvard as one of 10 resident fellows at the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research for the 1997-98 year...
...delighted that Ambassador Carrington is able to join this distinguished group of scholars at the DuBois Institute," said DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the institute and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, in the release...
...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu too the episode was a multiple fiasco. The Mossad operation failed. It jeopardized relations with Jordan. It strained ties with the U.S. Late last week Canada recalled its ambassador to Israel to protest the use of faked passports. And once again Netanyahu had fallen short of his pledge to provide Israelis with an answer to Hamas terrorism...