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Japan's uncharacteristically venturesome moves reflect growing global consensus on isolating Iran. U.S. diplomats say Italy, another of Iran's top trading partners, has been "very supportive," as have the governments of several Persian Gulf states where Iran does much banking. The U.S. is also seeking private- sector support: Treasury officials are talking with international financial institutions about what a top U.S. diplomat calls the "reputational risks" of handling funds for Iran. The tactic seems to be working: European diplomats report that letters of credit that facilitate Iran's foreign trade are drying...
...Maverick Mogul TIME's Feb. 16, 1968, cover story profiled John Kenneth Galbraith, the influential economist, diplomat and prolific author who died in April...
...involved were likely to be punished. When TIME's first Haditha story ran in March, it was picked up by most of the Arab TV stations beaming into Iraq, but the local channels and newspapers repeated it with no comment or further reporting of their own. A senior Western diplomat who monitors the Iraqi media was surprised: "They treated it as just another atrocity, nothing special." There is one other explanation: Iraqis take it for granted that the military--any military--will mistreat and murder civilians. After all, that's how their own soldiers behaved for decades. They expected...
...shoddy education in American history he received as a government concentrator at Harvard.Daniloff’s final attempt to join the government was thwarted when he tried to join the CIA.“When I left Harvard, I very much wanted to go abroad essentially as a diplomat,” Daniloff says. “I also applied to the CIA. And guess what? I was rejected.” Though the Soviets claimed that the CIA routinely used Western journalists in covert activities, Daniloff stresses that his early desire to join the intelligence agency was unrelated...
...Weeks," says a senior US diplomat.? "Not months."? Still, no formal deadline...