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...always been surrounded by the academic and famous. Her father is Gunnar Myrdal, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, and her mother is a diplomat who has sat in Sweden's parliament and held that country's ambassadorship to India. Her own field is moral philosophy--an area she exlored in her aaard-winning 1978 book "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life...
...about his mission. "I know you guys have to make a living too," he told reporters, "but this is a serious effort that in no way would be served by public comment." Habib has skillfully managed to cool tempers during his meetings with Begin and Assad. Remarks an American diplomat involved in the shuttle: "He has a knack for timing, knowing when to act as conceptualizer one moment and a street-wise Brooklyn type the next...
After three tense and exhausting weeks on the diplomatic trail, Habib could already be credited with helping to forestall an Israeli air raid on the missile sites. But the future joustings of bitter Middle Eastern rivalries remained uncertain, even if the immediate crisis could be resolved. Said a Western diplomat: "I hate to think that he might have to live like this for a couple of years...
Salvadoran detectives summoned to the Sheraton Hotel after the shootings of Hammer, Pearlman and Viera managed to find not a single witness. But an American diplomat breakfasting in the Sheraton shortly afterward asked his waitress, Teresa Torres, if she had seen anything the night of the killings. "If I did," the woman replied, "I'm afraid they would kill...
After further conversations in the coffee shop, Torres was finally persuaded by the diplomat to tell her story to U.S. embassy officials. She was then flown to Washington for protection and lodged with an official of the AFL-CIO, under whose auspices Hammer and Pearlman had been working on land reform when they were murdered. The labor organization has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to their killers. While in Washington, Torres passed a polygraph test and convinced U.S. officials that she was a truthful witness...