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Five speakers--including Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Yitzhak Oren, the Israeli consul to New England--addressed the rally, which was jointly sponsored by the Harvard Republicans, Harvard Democrats and Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. All of the speakers encouraged the audience to continue their support of Israel as well as the Bush Administration's refusal to link the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the invasion of Kuwait...
...civil engineer in Kuwait's public-works ministry while organizing Fatah on the side. It was Kuwait that arranged the infamous meeting between the P.L.O.'s United Nations representative and U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young; Kuwait that refused the nomination of an American ambassador because he had previously served as consul in Jerusalem; Kuwait that broke diplomatic relations with West Germany in 1965, when Bonn recognized Israel; Kuwait that dutifully deducted a tithe from the salaries of Palestinians working for the Kuwaiti government for remittance to the P.L.O.; and Kuwait that coughed up millions whenever Yasser Arafat cried bankruptcy -- at least...
...reception for Luke I. Pontifell '90, who recently published the limited edition of Helmut Kohl's address at last year's Commencement Exercises, German Consul-General Walter Gerhardt praised his country's chancellor as "the German Hercules...
...that netted them more than $300 million since 1985. These U.S.-bound refugees paid as much as $10,000 for a tourist visa, plus an additional $10,000 to $15,000 for a Panamanian passport. Among the implicated schemers is Noriega's cousin Ciro Noriega Quintero, the former Panamanian consul general to Hong Kong. "Manuel Noriega was the king of alien smuggling," says Robert Penland, who retired last month as the INS's assistant commissioner for antismuggling. "When he was deposed, there were 12,000 Chinese and 4,000 Cubans just stranded in the pipeline in Panama." Since then, other...
...important witness who has not been charged with any crimes is Jose Blandon, former consul general of Panama in New York and a onetime member of Noriega's inner circle. After breaking with the dictator two years ago, Blandon told a Miami grand jury that in Havana in 1984 he watched Fidel Castro mediate a dispute between Noriega and members of the Medellin cartel after Panamanian troops closed down a drug laboratory that Noriega had been paid to protect...