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...Interior Minister Charles Pasqua summoned U.S. Ambassador Pamela Harriman to his office to protest the spying. At a second meeting Feb. 10, he demanded that the five CIA officers leave the country immediately. Working their contacts in the French intelligence services, senior CIA officials were assured that the matter would be dealt with behind closed doors. The two countries' spy agencies have had fierce battles over economic secrets, ``but when we fight wars together or life-and-death issues like terrorism, we work closely with the French,'' said a former CIA official...
...referential experience, but telling yourself so is of no use because it is also totally absorbing. During, say, a 10-hour binge of speed chess, you tell yourself other things. You tell yourself it is a noble game. You tell yourself it was Ben Franklin's favorite pastime while ambassador to France ("I call this my opera," he would say, explaining his absence from the Paris opera). You tell yourself that Natan Sharansky kept his sanity in solitary confinement by playing mental chess against himself ("I always won," he recalls with satisfaction...
Robertson could hardly engage in these activities without Mobutu's help. ``Diamonds are Mobutu's principal source of revenue,'' says William Harrop, who served as U.S. ambassador to Zaire from 1987 to 1991. ``It is virtually impossible to operate in that field without his permission.'' One man who helps run ADC in Zaire is Bill Lovick, a former Assemblies of God minister who was dismissed from the church in 1985 for ``a lack of ethics in raising Assemblies of God monies,'' according to a letter dispatched to him on Nov. 22, 1985, from the church's district secretary-treasurer. Lovick...
Winnie Mandela is not the only A.N.C. official facing accusations of corruption. Allan Boesak, a popular A.N.C. leader, announced last week that he would withdraw his nomination to be South Africa's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva. He is accused of misusing some $800,000 in foreign contributions to his Foundation for Peace and Justice. He denies any wrongdoing, and earlier, when a team of Johannesburg lawyers investigated and said he had ``enriched himself'' with foreign funds, he accused them of racism. Last week President Mandela accepted his withdrawal tersely, ``with regret...
Also participating on the political panel will be: Ambassador Richard Williams, former U.S. consul general to Hong Kong; Dr. Allen Lee Pang Fei, chair of the Liberal Party in Hong Kong; Bing Leung, vice-chair of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, and Jonathan Mirsky, East Asian correspondent for the London Times...