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Watson is said to have "awed" Wall Street by generating $36 billion for IBM. In his capacity as ambassador under former President Jimmy Carter, Watson played a pivotal role in determining foreign policy during the initial Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...place of Walesa, Harvard invited novelist-poet Carlos Fuentes to speak at Commencement. Fuentes had also been an ambassador to Mexico from France. According to Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack, Fuentes had at one time been suspected of being a Soviet agent by the CIA and was denied a visa to the U.S. during the 1960s...
Having had a king, ambassador, poet, professor and economist at the podium, Harvard decided to extend an invitation to a baron. As a result, Lord Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington addressed the 336th Commencement exercises...
...political leaders," wrote Datta-Ray. Yet many thoughtful Indians and foreign leaders are not at all ready to write off the world's largest democracy. "Indian democracy has weathered such blows before and can do so again," said a senior British diplomat. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. ambassador to New Delhi during the Kennedy Administration, called the system "imperfect but secure." Said Galbraith: "The idea that the people of India would surrender their sovereignty to any form of dictatorship is not true. And I would feel sorry for anyone who tried to impose it on them...
...following day, one week after reopening the U.S. embassy in Kuwait City, Ambassador Edward Gnehm was asked about human-rights abuses. "We have not had nearly the difficulties that people anticipated," he said...