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...Definitely, we would like to see everyone withhis family by Christmas, because that is a veryjoyous and happy occasion, and it is time forfamily reunions," Iraq's ambassador to the UnitedNations, Abdul Amir al-Anbari, said Thursday...
...Arab League ambassador to the United Nations told an audience of more than 100 people last night that the input of Arab nations in formulating a solution to the Gulf crisis is necessary to establish a lasting "new world order...
...Atlantic Coast city of Colon (pop. 100,000). Once a prosperous port of call for ocean liners, today the country's second largest city seems to harbor only misery. Rotting tenements line the streets, unemployment exceeds 25%, drug use and violent crime are rampant. Deane Hinton, the American ambassador to Panama, first visited Colon in 1938, when it was "a beautiful city." Now, he says, it is "a disaster area...
...this year, although the U.S. has given Panama $130 million to pay off arrears on its $5 billion foreign debt, Washington has laid out only $70 million in direct aid. "What we're giving them is not even equal to direct damages caused by the invasion," says former U.S. Ambassador Ambler Moss, who estimates the destruction's price tag to be $1 billion. Meanwhile, the surge in global oil prices has dealt the country an unexpected and potentially disastrous blow. Totally dependent on imported oil, Panama expects to see its petroleum costs double to $300 million next year. Says Comptroller...
...budget that devotes 40% of its resources to the military. The cutoff of U.S. aid after the 1988 riots has had no discernible effect, leading some American policymakers to ponder whether to try some limited involvement with the Burmese government once again. Burton Levin, the former U.S. ambassador to Burma, says no. "To think you can sit down and talk to these people would be to ignore the history of the last 28 years," he says. "If these people remain in power, there will be no change...