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...cultural arm for 30 years: "It's become too large, it's underfinanced, and it's under serious fire. The question you must ask yourself then is whether the U.N. is not headed toward some kind of disaster. I think the answer is probably yes." U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright phrases the choice bluntly: "Reform...
Minerva Bernardino, the Dominican Republic's delegate and later the first female U.N. ambassador, recalls the sense of high mission. Bernardino, now 88, broke her ankle at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel the night before she was to address the conclave. "They told me I needed a cast to my knee. I said no. They said I would lose my foot. I said, 'I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.'" Harold Stassen, also 88 today, was in the U.S. delegation. The former Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential hopeful recalls the thrill on June...
...just must be fabulous to be JULIA ROBERTS: to make $12 million for some movies and work with Woody Allen on others; to be a goodwill ambassador to Haiti and have a world problem get attention because she brings it up; and, best of all, to be hounded worldwide by photographers. Last week the news broke that Roberts had found love with a Venetian water-limo driver--an Italian tabloid even ran a blurry photo, possibly of the two kissing. "It's not true," says Roberts' spokesperson. "I didn't ask her if she kissed him, but she kisses everyone...
Despite the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear warfare has not ended, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Robert L. Gallucci told 120 people at the Kennedy School last night...
Masahide Ota, Okinawa's Governor, flew to Tokyo to lodge a protest with U.S. Ambassador Walter Mondale and the Japanese government. Ota and most other Okinawans want the island's 40 American facilities, which occupy 20% of its land, to be moved elsewhere. Now that the Russian threat to Japan has receded, many Okinawans have lost patience with daily live-fire exercises, roaring F-15 jets and rowdy American service members. Polls show that as many as 80% of the islanders want the bases either closed or greatly reduced in size. "The people," says Ota, "are fed up with...