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...about the challenges he will face. The country he goes back to rule will be changed in difficult and unpredictable ways. The man who goes back to take charge is not the same one who fled the September 1991 coup d'etat under the protective wing of the U.S. ambassador. "The presidency and exile have been a lesson for me," he told TIME recently. "I learned that I am a leader, but also a statesman with grave responsibilities. It is easier to be a leader than a negotiator. It is easier to lead the Haitian people in Haiti than...
Continuing in his new role as freelance secretary of state, Carter on Monday met with North Korea's ambassador to the U.N. to propose a return visit to Pyongyang after July's talks on the country's nuclear program. Today he huddled with South Korea's ambassador...
...peace and prosperity off to a lucrative start. Among the Americans: General Motors ceo John Smith, IBM chairman Louis Gerstner, Goldman Sachs chief Stephen Friedman, Motorola's Robert Galvin, Morgan Stanley's Richard Fisher and Dwayne Andreas of Archer-Daniels-Midland. Said U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Holbrooke: "For almost five decades in the postwar period, the relationship ((between the U.S. and Europe)) was basically military. The departure of the troops from Berlin represents the beginning of an emphasis on trade and economics...
...Irish Republican Army's political leader, Gerry Adams, appears set to make a second visit to the U.S. this year -- this time as an ambassador of peace. The State Department is preparing a U.S. visa in that event. To play fair, the U.S. is also entertaining a request from a Northern Ireland Unionist delegation to visit Washington. The last time the Clinton Administration gave Adams U.S. entry, in January, the move strained ties between Washington and London...
...Korea, that Kim Jong Il faces internal and external problems in succeeding the late Kim Il Sung as head of state. He hasn't been seen in public since his father's funeral on July 20. But things may settle down: Both South Korea's spy chief and its ambassador to Washington reversed course today, saying they thought the big-haired playboy was in full control...