Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heyzer gave her speech as this year's RamaMehta lecturer. The annual lecture, named afterIndian diplomat and writer Mehta, was endowed byJohn Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor ofeconomics emeritus, and his wife Catherine AtwaterGalbraith, who coauthored a book with the lateMehta
...jungle long enough, military planners think, disheartened Zapatistas will give up and negotiate. Maybe, but at week's end there were no negotiations, though the army had clearly dug in for a long stay in previously held rebel villages. ``It's a scrambled policy,'' said a Western diplomat...
...Last October the U.N. General Assembly recommended an end to the embargo by a vote of 101 to 2; only Israel joined the U.S. in saying no. ``Why should the U.S. maintain economic sanctions against Castro if it is willing to trade with Hanoi and Beijing?'' asks a European diplomat. A senior Clinton official can only reply, ``History matters.'' The Administration, he says, ``probably wouldn't seek to create an embargo if it didn't already exist. But there's been one for a long time, and to get rid of it now would send a message that Castro should...
...name turned up in an address book seized during a cocaine raid. ``Fujimori is a politician in the middle of a campaign,'' says Carol Graham, a visiting fellow at the World Bank. ``Nationalism is a nerve that politicians in need of some kind of boost can touch.'' Says former diplomat Manuel Vacula: ``Who does this benefit? Fujimori and the narco-army. Who can say now that the military is a major drug trafficker? It would be treason...
...Majed, the man who allegedly headed the assassination branch of Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council. Lebanese officials, who plan to try Eintour on kidnapping and murder charges, blame him for hijacking a French yacht off Gaza in 1987 and arranging the killing of a top Jordanian diplomat last year. Nidal himself tops most wanted lists in the U.S., Europe and the Mideast for attacks that killed dozens of people, including 1985 assaults on passenger terminals at the Rome and Vienna airports in which 17 people died...