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Baker was brought into the firm by its founding partner and top-ranking Democrat, David Rubenstein, a former domestic adviser to President Jimmy Carter. He met Baker after the election through their mutual friend Robert Strauss, the wheeling-dealing Democrat who had just finished serving as Bush's Ambassador to Moscow. "Here I was with a man who helped throw me and other Democrats out of office 12 years ago," recalls Rubenstein of his first meeting with Baker in the White House. "And we had been brought together by a prominent Democrat fresh from duty in a Republican Administration...
...wears pinstripe suits with suspenders and is addressed as "Mr. Ambassador." But Mickey Kantor is no diplomat. Take, for example, the way he described French negotiators who have fought to retain barriers to American farm exports: they have "held their breath and stomped their little feet," he said in an interview last week. Publicly, he has threatened retaliation against half a dozen "unfair" trade practices by the Europeans, the Japanese and others. And in response to foreign officials who sputter about his "bullying" tactics, he says with a tight smile and easy Tennessee drawl, "I think our message is getting...
...urged the new administration to maintain the U.S. military presence in East Asia. Clinton must acknowledge "the diversity in the region," he said, by appointing an ambassador or State Department official of Asian affairs...
...Many times I feel I am an ambassador of the Black race. In class discussion, when they talk about Black issues, the discussion seems to turn to me," Reid says. "It would be tiring to be an ambassador every day and then come home, eat dinner and be an ambassador again...
Slovenia's ambassador to the United Nations yesterday criticized the U.N. for not deploying troops to the former Yugoslavia to guarantee humanitarian...