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...United States should aim to use less military force and more “soft power” in its foreign policy, a Carter and Clinton administration diplomat told students and faculty at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night. Richard N. Gardner ’48, who served as ambassador to Italy and Spain, discussed his political philosophy and related his experiences in a conversation with University Distinguished Service Professor Joseph S. Nye of the Kennedy School of Government, Gardner made the case for a return to President Carter’s foreign policy approach, which focused...
...DIED. KOCHERIL RAMAN NARAYANAN, 85, diplomat who climbed from the depths of India's caste system to become President; in New Delhi. Born into a poor Dalit (once called "untouchable") family, Narayanan attended college in India and later earned a degree from the London School of Economics. In the foreign service, Narayanan served as India's ambassador to Beijing and Washington; he was appointed to the largely ceremonial post of President in July...
...Jordan long before the Iraq war. Jordanian officials accuse him of directing the so-called Millennium Plot to hit tourist sites, including the Radisson Hotel in Amman, on New Year's Eve 1999. Last year, a Jordanian court sentenced Zarqawi to death for instigating the assassination of an American diplomat in 2002. In 2004, Jordanian officials said they foiled a chemical bomb attack directed by Zarqawi that could have killed up to 20,000 people; he is currently standing trial in absentia for the plot...
...Iranian diplomats downplayed the episode. Nonetheless, Iranian political scientist Hadi Semati told TIME Ahmadinejad's reversal of the conciliatory tone of former reformist President Mohammed Khatami risks escalating the ongoing showdown with the West over Iran's nuclear-enrichment ambitions. With his administration beset by an internal power struggle between military hard-liners and religious conservatives, Ahmadinejad may have been trying to bolster his standing with radicals. "The restraints are all off," says a Western diplomat in Tehran. "[The President] is remote-controlled by the very people who are responsible for all the bad stuff." Says a Tehran reformist...
...Iranian diplomats downplayed the episode. Nonetheless, Iranian political scientist Hadi Semati told TIME Ahmadinejad's reversal of the conciliatory tone of former reformist President Mohammed Khatami risks escalating the ongoing showdown with the West over Iran's nuclear-enrichment ambitions. With his administration beset by an internal power struggle between military hard-liners and religious conservatives, Ahmadinejad may have been trying to bolster his standing with radicals. "The restraints are all off," says a Western diplomat in Tehran. "[The President] is remote-controlled by the very people who are responsible for all the bad stuff." Says a Tehran reformist...