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From July 1986 until July 1989, Ames served in Rome as a CIA officer at the American embassy. During his posting, he distinguished himself by getting drunk at a reception in the U.S. ambassador's garden and passing out in the gutter, where the carabinieri picked him up and took him to the hospital. In Rome Ames met repeatedly with his KGB handlers. He also bought his first Jaguar...
Perhaps hoping to move her image Audrey Hepburn-ward, Julia Roberts flew to Haiti last week to act as unicef's goodwill ambassador to the newly democratic but still impoverished country. The actress visited orphanages, vaccination programs and schools. But while delighting the people of Haiti, she disappointed the folks at Disney by taking a pass on its script for the Pretty Woman sequel...
Galbraith, Kennedy's Ambassador to India, said the video was a reminder that the problems of the troubled '60s remain...
...including bombs and sometimes on runways--to lighten their planes. Then ground crews moved bulldozers and other heavy equipment onto the runways--out of "pique," says the general, who speculates that the soldiers left behind didn't want those who abandoned them ever to come back. Amazingly, even then Ambassador Martin would not order a helicopter evacuation. He insisted on fixed-wing flights because they could move more people and refused to admit they were impossible...
...Vietnamese left behind, however, were so stoical--or friendly. Kenneth Moorefield, a foreign-service officer and former infantry captain who put the dazed Ambassador Martin on one of the last choppers out, climbed aboard one himself shortly after. His last look around the embassy contrasts with Herrington's: "Hundreds of Vietnamese had swarmed over the walls and were looting the warehouse, the offices, the snack bar. Some were driving embassy cars around and around in almost a maniacal frenzy. On the other side of the walls, crowds were shouting chants against the U.S., celebrating the imminent victory of the communists...