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...ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country, a statesman is a man who lies from the comfort of home. Regarding China, American statesmen abound. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord denies vehemently that America is trying to contain China as it once did the Soviet Union. Our policy is one of engagement not containment, he insists. And Newt Gingrich says on Face the Nation that we should help the Chinese people undermine the Chinese government, then spends the next five minutes explaining that he did not really mean undermining...
...Taiwan's President, Lee Teng-hui, to visit the U.S. Clinton's foreign-policy advisers were unanimously opposed to the visit, and the Chinese treated it as an abrogation of the fundamental tenet of U.S.-China relations--that there is "one China." Enraged, Beijing retaliated by pulling out its ambassador to the U.S. "We expected a reaction," says a State Department official, "but we were surprised by its ferocity...
...have captured the beseiged mountain enclave of Zepa, the second U.N. "safe area" targeted inthe rebels' violent march through the Muslim region. The sources told Barnes that Muslim civilians -- rather than army units -- in the town had surrendered. Speaking to diplomats in Zagreb by telephone from Washington, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, said he had "a preliminary report" that Zepa had fallen, according to the Associated Press. Under the terms of surrender, Barnes says, the Serbs will move about 30 heavily-wounded Muslim residents to Sarajevo on Thursday. Though the Serbs reportedly captured, killed or tortured...
Panelists included David Broder of The Washington Post, David N. Dinkins, former mayor of New York City, Lynn Martin, former Secretary of Labor, Barbara Roberts, former governor of Oregon, Jack Rosenthal, editor of The New York Times Magazine, and Donald McHenry, former ambassador to the United Nations...
...journal's editorial board includes professors from several American and foreign universities, as well as CNN's Bernard Shaw and former ambassador Hushang Ansary...