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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The news started as just a trickle of letters to Madeline Albright after she was named UN Ambassador in 1993: Information about the European side of her family, the side left behind when her father, Josef Korbel, fled Czechoslovakia after WWII. The trickle grew to a torrent, many from Arab groups questioning her nomination as Secretary of State in December. And on Monday, the surprising story came out in the Washington Post: Madeline Albright, raised a Roman Catholic by her Czech parents, had learned that she has Jewish roots, and that several close relatives, including her paternal grandparents...
Other panelists included Sir Robin McLaren, former British ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Ezra F. Vogel, Ford professor of the social sciences...
...Secretary of State. Expected to be sworn in Thursday, Albright will be the highest-ranking woman to serve in any federal government post and the first to serve as the President?s chief diplomat. Republican senators limited their criticism to the Clinton foreign policy and schmoozed with the former ambassador to the United Nations, foreign policy hawk Jesse Helms, who never made any secret of his support during the confirmation hearings, calling her "a strong lady, a courageous lady." The honeymoon is likely to be over, however, once Albright gets down to business. Helms, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations...
Across town, some 20 heavily armed Tupac Amaru militants still hold 74 hostages--including Fujimori's brother--inside the Japanese ambassador's residence, which they seized in a stunning raid on a gala cocktail party Dec. 17. Their main demand: the release of 450 comrades imprisoned in holes like Castro Castro. Turning to the reporters from Time he has taken into the prison, Fujimori waves his hand at the cells. "How do you expect me to negotiate with violent criminals like these? I can't let these people go. Never...
When Henry Grunwald left Vienna in August 1938, he was a boy alone, carrying a single suitcase and fleeing the Nazis. When he returned in 1988, he was the ambassador of the United States of America, riding in a limousine with the Stars and Stripes fluttering from its fender. His first assignment was to register his adopted country's displeasure with the Nazi collaborator Kurt Waldheim, who had become his homeland's President...