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...Norway, India, England, and Sri Lanka, women have attained positions of power during the 20th century, said Dessima M. Williams, a 1989-90 fellow at the Bunting Institute and past ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada...
...angered by the Panama invasion was Peru's lame-duck President Alan Garcia Perez that he recalled his Ambassador to Washington and vowed not to attend the summit "as long as North American troops are illegally in Panama." After an appeal from Colombia's President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Garcia had a change of heart, and he now plans to be on hand in Cartagena. But tensions were further inflamed when in the heady days after Noriega's fall, the Pentagon clumsily leaked word of its plan to station an aircraft-carrier task force in international waters off Colombia's Caribbean...
...accused him of doing some double-talking in getting his visa. At a stopover in London, Jackson repeated his strong support for sanctions against the South African government. Said Botha: "It is a pity he made these remarks about sanctions, because he made exactly the opposite remarks to my Ambassador ((in Washington)) when they had private talks...
Vladimir Brovikov, Ambassador to Poland...
...with only 200 voting members, instead of the present 249 voting and 108 nonvoting members. He also spoke out against electing members simply because they held important posts, terming the practice an "expression of the party-and-state system of power." The proposed arithmetic had its critics, most notably Ambassador to Poland Vladimir Brovikov, who sarcastically wondered whether "democracy within the party will decline if there are 500 people in the hall instead of the 200 suggested in the document." But Victor Lomin, one of the visiting miners invited to the meeting by Gorbachev, took a different view...