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...GREAT COUP FOR CHINA TO BE host of the women's conference. But the Chinese should have sought even greater credit. They should have refrained from ugly harassment and close surveillance of the participants and not restricted their speech and movement. In the future the U.N. should fully guarantee such basic rights in a host country before it is chosen as a conference site. TENZIN YANGDAK Mont Pelerin, Switzerland...
Neither his admirers nor his detractors were surprised by Holbrooke's diplomatic coup. In terms both camps could embrace, a State Department colleague says, "Dick is very abrasive and arrogant, but he is also a brilliant conceptualizer and tactician." Those qualities characterize Holbrooke's career both in and out of government and have often embroiled him in controversy. As a young Foreign Service officer in Vietnam, Holbrooke attracted the attention of ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and later of Averell Harriman, on whose staff he served at the Paris peace talks. Says U.S. Ambassador to India Frank Wisner...
...Lewis acquired food giant TLC Beatrice International in a $985 million leveraged buyout. The coup made Beatrice the largest black-owned business in the country, with Lewis at the helm...
...power of the central government, passed laws that gave local authorities enormous power over resources, as well as the implied right to contravene federal regulations protecting ecosystems. Nonetheless, it was thought that the strong central government could still maintain the balance of power. Then came the August 1991 attempted coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev and the rapid unraveling of Soviet authority. With no federal checks on local power, according to Yablokov, these laws became the legal basis for the devastation of natural resources. Local politicians are quite happy with this situation because it gives them a free hand to turn...
This week, Operation Rescue baptized yet another new member. Through this latest conversion, the sometimes violent pro-life organization whose mission is the "rescue" of unborn fetuses managed yet another publicity coup. This time it was not brought on by gunfire on an abortion clinic, but instead by the identity of the woman who joined their ranks...