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Five professors that knew and worked with Reischauer throughout his career as scholar and an ambassador to Japan payed tribute to him. Reischauer, 79, died on September...
...Iraqi Ambassador Mohamed Sadiq al Mashat, speaking at the Law School this week in reference to the Iraqi invasion of neighboring Kuwait...
...question concerned accountability, and James Baker would have none of it. In a television interview last week, the Secretary of State was pointedly asked by New York Times reporter R.W. Apple Jr. why the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, on Baker's direct orders, told Saddam Hussein in late July that the U.S. took no position on Iraq's border and economic dispute with Kuwait. A week later, Iraq invaded the emirate...
Baker said he agreed with a Washington Post columnist who had called such questions "retrospective scapegoating" and "shameful." He added, "We've got some 20/20 hindsight going on that's been highly critical, frankly, of some very fine career public servants," meaning Ambassador April Glaspie and John Kelly, the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs. The criticism, replied Apple, was not aimed at the diplomats. "They're trying to criticize...
Bishops around the world are called upon to write regulations tailoring the Pope's "general norms" to their own situations. According to Archbishop Pio Laghi, new head of the Vatican education office (and former Vatican pro- nuncio, or ambassador, to the U.S.), each nation's bishops will bear the responsibility of enforcing the regulations -- though perhaps by acting collectively, not as individuals...