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CAREER: Oil businessman, 1953-66; U.S. House of Representatives, R-Texas, 1967-71; U.S. ambassador to United Nations, 1971-72; Republican National Coimmittee chairman, 1973-74; chief of U.S. Liaison Office, Beijing, China, 1974-75; CIA director, 1976-77; vice president, 1981-89; president, 1989-present...
...World of 1492-1992: An EndlessDispute--by Miguel Portilla, ambassador ofMexico to UNESCO, and professor, faculty,Philosophy and Letters. Boylston Hall, Auditorium...
...identity of this source whose testimony has such a dramatic effect on provoking concerted condemnation of Iraqi atrocities has been revealed in recent months. She is the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador...
Vladimir Lukin, who is about to become ambassador to Washington, has impeccable reformist credentials: as a young journalist in Czechoslovakia in 1968, he bravely opposed the Soviet invasion. Now he is urging patience on the part of everyone -- Ukrainians, Russians and outsiders. "An enlightened and balanced championship of both Russian and Ukrainian interests," he says, "is the only weapon against Zhirinovsky and the extreme nationalists." Translation: if Yeltsin yields too much, too fast to Kiev, he will be swept away by a coalition of demagogues bent on exploiting the hardships of the citizenry and die-hard believers...
...response to concerns of the Vatican, the Reagan Administration agreed to alter its foreign-aid program to comply with the church's teachings on birth control. According to William Wilson, the President's first ambassador to the Vatican, the State Department reluctantly agreed to an outright ban on the use of any U. S. aid funds by either countries or international health organizations for the promotion of birth control or abortion. As a result of this position, announced at the World Conference on Population in Mexico City in 1984, the U.S. withdrew funding from, among others, two of the world...