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...YORK: Jayantha Dhanapala is not a name you're likely to remember in a hurry. Yet the 59-year-old Sri Lankan diplomat, a former ambassador to the U.S., has just become one of the most important people in the Iraq crisis. Dhanapala was tapped by Kofi Annan to lead the U.N.'s "white glove" team of chaperones that will accompany weapons inspectors into Iraqi palaces...
...Naturally, the U.S. remains skeptical. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger had just three words: ?Wait and see.? But Annan, a wily diplomat who was Washington?s pick for the top job, is unlikely to disappoint. He knows a deal that ties UNSCOM?s hands is not worth coming back to New York with. His spokesman Fred Eckhard indicated that one of the major hurdles in previous Iraqi offers -- time limits on weapons inspections -- was not present in this deal. So how did Annan do it? The so-called ?white glove? solution, diplomats accompanying inspectors, is one possibility, but that...
SENTENCED. GUEORGUI MAKHARADZE, 36, Georgian diplomat who killed a Maryland teen while driving drunk; to seven to 21 years in prison; in Washington...
...less of a diplomat and morJe of a "take charge kind of guy," Petite said
That remarkable performance forced a worldwide re-evaluation. Advises Arnold Kantor, a former U.S. diplomat now at the Forum for International Policy in Washington: "One shouldn't be fooled. Jiang is enormously smart and capable, but his persona is unpretentious and folksy, almost intentionally disarming." Such revisionism has prompted people to recall earlier moments when Jiang showed his bite. At a meeting in Beijing with a prominent American, he praised the distinguished visitor in English for an inspired analysis of China's needs. Then in an aside in Chinese, he muttered, "This guy doesn't know a thing about China...