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...National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders; "Words as Hard as Cannonballs: Speechmaking and Political Communication in 'The Information Age,'" led by Martha Eddison, a former speechwriter for Mario Cuomo; "Development, the United Nations and the 21st Century: The Need for a New Development Para-digm," led by former U.S. ambassador and U.N. representative Anne Forrester...
...Nothing's going to pot because an ambassador's not there. I've seen them come and I've seen them go and the best thing is when they go." Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, commenting on the committee's continuing inaction on 30 of President Clinton's ambassadorial nominations...
...colleague says, "Dick is very abrasive and arrogant, but he is also a brilliant conceptualizer and tactician." Those qualities characterize Holbrooke's career both in and out of government and have often embroiled him in controversy. As a young Foreign Service officer in Vietnam, Holbrooke attracted the attention of ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and later of Averell Harriman, on whose staff he served at the Paris peace talks. Says U.S. Ambassador to India Frank Wisner, who worked with Holbrooke in Vietnam: "Dick has a passion for prominent people and an uncanny knack for figuring out their agendas...
When Clinton became President, Holbrooke sought appointment as ambassador to Japan but had to settle for Germany. In a characteristically blatant concentration on the center of power, Holbrooke cultivated relations with Chancellor Helmut Kohl's top foreign policy expert Joachim Bitterlich, and all but ignored Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, to the irritation of the German foreign office. In October he returned to Foggy Bottom as the top European policymaker...
...formal apology by U.S. Ambassador Walter Mondale has done little to placate the people of Okinawa after the rape of a 12-year-old girl, allegedly by a group of U.S. servicemen, exactly three weeks ago. Today, nearly a thousand people gathered in a park on the Japanese island to demand that American military personnel stationed there leave for good. "The rape has crystallized Okinawans' sense of grievance against the powers in Washington and Tokyo," reports Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. The timing couldn't be worse, since the U.S. and Japan are to sign a five-year agreement Wednesday...