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...time Madeleine Albright sinks into a wicker chair at a corner table in a quiet Georgetown restaurant, the circles under her eyes are dark and deep. She's running an hour late; she's skipped a reception at the Czech embassy. Her ambassador in Paris is dying. It has been a long day. The Merlot comes in a big glass...
Petr Taborsky doesn't fit the part of a hardened convict. Born into a Czech family that immigrated to the U.S. when he was six, he is articulate and soft-spoken, an idealistic 34-year-old science nerd who hopes someday to conduct cancer research. He is also principled and somewhat stubborn--so stubborn, in fact, that the state of Florida put him on a chain gang last year, and now holds him in a minimum-security facility...
...behind when her father, Josef Korbel, fled Czechoslovakia after WWII. The trickle grew to a torrent, many from Arab groups questioning her nomination as Secretary of State in December. And on Monday, the surprising story came out in the Washington Post: Madeline Albright, raised a Roman Catholic by her Czech parents, had learned that she has Jewish roots, and that several close relatives, including her paternal grandparents, died in Nazi concentration camps. Albright told the Post that the news was compelling, but that she wanted to conduct her own research. "Obviously it is a very personal matter for my family...
...Helms maintains that the U.S. should quit the UN if it is not streamlined. He likes Albright's tough stance toward rogue leaders like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro and her support for NATO's eastward expansion. That issue will be up for discussion in July when Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are expected to start formal negotiations with NATO. Enlarging NATO is also a priority for Senator William Cohen, who was confirmed Wednesday to head the Pentagon. The former Republican congressman told his colleagues in an equally amicable confirmation hearing that the U.S. cannot be "the world...
...Dole said the word frequently, though he was not the first prominent official to use it. A few years ago, George Bush praised the Czech Republic's Vaclav Havel for "living or dying, whatever, for freedom." Nothing that memorable was said last year. The candidates talked about a "bridge" to here and there. The President's most quoted remark concerned his observation of an archaeological find, that it was "a good-looking mummy. I'd like to date that mummy...