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WORD HAS IT THAT MOSCOW AMBASSADOR BOB STRAUSS IS not happy in his work. His former Washington law partners believe that a weary and frustrated Strauss will be back with them by year's end. But he won't drop the position until after November to avoid seeming disloyal to President Bush. On an even stickier point: it would look bad for him, as former Democratic National Chairman, to jump ship from the Bush Administration and show up helping the Democrats in the fall. So Strauss will have to stay put for now and be weary and frustrated for just...
...Bush again pressed the bank on Saddam's behalf. Hoping to bring good news to an upcoming meeting with Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon, he successfully urged the new bank chairman, John A. Bohn Jr., to provide another $200 million in loan guarantees the bank had earlier denied. At his meeting with Hamdoon, Bush was also able to assure the ambassador that because two more export licenses had been approved -- over Pentagon objections -- Iraq would soon have permission to make two long-sought purchases of American high technology. Eventually hundreds of export licenses would be approved to sell Iraq more than...
Next year, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Arthur A. Hartman '47 will take over from financier Franklin D. Raines '71 as the board's chair...
...remember John Lithgow's stunning Gilbertand Sullivan performances and Greg Craig'sinspired interrogation of UN ambassador ArthurGoldberg at a massive gathering in SandersTheatre, which brought down the house...
...negotiators despaired of settling the funding questions in advance and agreed to reopen the issue in Rio. Some observers think the Group of 77 may have made a tactical blunder by pushing so hard for financial and technical aid. Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the U.N., has called it a "diplomatic mistake of the highest magnitude." Others criticize the Earth Summit organizers, who by putting so many environmental problems on the negotiating table may have inadvertently ensured that none of them get solved...