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Some of the most blatant corruption has occurred in Tanzania. Last year a member of the country's parliament, Alli Yusufu Abdurabi, was discovered with 105 tusks. Abdurabi is now serving a twelve-year prison sentence for trading in illegal ivory. Indonesia's former Ambassador to Tanzania, Hoesen Yoesoef, was found trying to smuggle more than 200 tusks out of the country last January. Other illegal ivory was found in the hands of a Catholic priest, a leading local journalist and officials of the Iranian and Pakistani embassies. More than 280 tons of illegal ivory has left Tanzania...
...after day new throngs poured in. There were so many abandoned Trabant and Wartburg automobiles on Prague streets that police began towing away any vehicle with East German stickers on it. On Tuesday, Ambassador Hermann Huber ordered the embassy gates closed when the refugee population had reached 5,000, then hours later, as the night turned bitterly cold, reopened them to families with children. A new round of departures was scheduled and then delayed. East German officials, moreover, insisted that the second group of trains make the trip from Prague to the West German city of Hof at night, rendering...
...only a few instances did calmer heads prevail. "It's not our business to use military force to change governments we don't like," said Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California. Said Ambler Moss, former U.S. Ambassador to Panama: "What is needed now is patience and diplomacy...
SEOUL, South Korea--Radical students armed with firebombs and tear gas briefly occupied part of U.S. Ambassador Donald Gregg's residence early today before riot police dragged them out, officials said...
President Mobutu has been asked to speak on the subject of peace in Southern Africa because he has been a voice of reason in a region of instability for over twenty years. Muchobekwa Kalimba wa Katana Ambassador of the Republic of Zaire