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After the uprising, Mangope vowed to stay in power, but again with the A.N.C.'s blessing Pretoria placed its ambassador to Bophuthatswana in charge of running the homeland until next month's elections. Mangope's troubles also led to the collapse of the so-called Freedom Alliance, an odd coupling of right-wing black and white parties boycotting the elections in an attempt to preserve some of the privileges they had accrued under apartheid. General Constand Viljoen, leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront, just beat the Friday- night deadline to register a new white separatist party called the Freedom Front. Though...
Arrested in Switzerland in December 1991 and extradited to France five months later, Sarhadi has not taken his imprisonment gracefully. He has written repeatedly to his ambassador, Ali Ahani, demanding that Tehran intervene on his behalf; Ahani has visited Bruguiere several times seeking to get the charges dropped...
...been pressuring the German government to limit the Mykonos case to keep intelligence matters out. However, German intelligence chief Bernd Schmidbauer, the country's main liaison with Iran, has repeatedly denied that Tehran has exerted any undue influence or that the missing report contains crucial information. Iran's ambassador to Germany, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, "categorically ((denies)) any connection between Darabi and the Iranian state" and blames the killings on "assassins from the outside, who want to sabotage Iran...
...Ambassador to the Vatican and former Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, when asked whether he intends to enter the Massachusetts gubernatorial race. Flynn said he is still considering running for governor, though he suggested that his chances of winning were remote. He was quoted in The Boston Globe of March...
Busch-Reisinger Museum. Through April 24. "Danish Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr." Features works by several masters of Danish...