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...Former ambassador to the Soviet Union Arthur A. Hartman '47 was appointed last weekend president of the Board of Overseers, Harvard's alumni-elected governing board...
Selected in 1904 as Commissioner and Secretary of Commerce, Forbes rose to Governor-General, until recalled by President Wilson. When the Republicans regained power, he resumed his diplomatic career as Hoover's ambassador to Japan. No wonder Coach Restic keeps hoping for an undefeated season...
...well as from Moscow-based journalists. "He is a person who can distinguish important things from less important things," says former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. "There is an illness in many foreign services -- the people in them are only good at following instructions. But, having spoken with Ambassador Strauss, I am under the impression that he has no instructions at all -- and doesn't need...
...seemed too good to be true and, sure enough, it was. As the United Nations Security Council prepared early last week to vote on sanctions against Libya, that country's ambassador announced that his government would hand over to the Arab League two Libyan intelligence agents suspected of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people. The understanding was that the two would be passed on for trial in either the U.S. or Britain. But when an Arab League delegation called in Tripoli, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pronounced his ambassador "incorrect" and sent...
...election season, and more and more American politicians are making "fact-finding trips" to Moscow, hoping to bring home an 8-by-10 glossy of their huddle with Boris Yeltsin. With as many as a dozen Congressmen showing up every week, Yeltsin and his staff have asked American Ambassador BOB STRAUSS to help slow the tide. The Russians say they're overwhelmed with too many urgent problems to spend so much time chewing the fat in what amounts to photo ops for the Yanks...