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...defend themselves; others, like former baseball executive Al Campanis, were undone by it." If the book lacks larger consideration of Nightline's place in the TV news universe, it does offer a fine appreciation of Koppel's interviewing technique. A highlight: his elegant response to an evasive Iraqi diplomat: "Ambassador Hamdoon, I know that you have had another career before you became a diplomat, so perhaps you will take some pity on me. I'm not a diplomat. I don't understand what those phrases mean. Does that mean yes or no?" Reporters might like to post that...
Degrees will also be bestowed upon philanthropist and diplomat Walter H. Annenberg, presidential policy advisor William T. Coleman Jr., social and feminist historian Natalie Zemon Davis, French historian Francois Furet, dancer Judith A. Jamison, philanthropist Oseola McCarty, physicist Charles P. Slichter '45 and National Institutes of Health director Harold E. Varmus...
Absolutely not good enough, says the U.S. "There was no deal," insisted an American diplomat who attended the meeting. "We would not accept something that was more water than wine." Another Washington official said, "We told Milosevic the man needs to be handed over...
...duties, but he has never really done so. He remains bed-ridden and in excruciating pain from back problems and arthritic knees. More alarming, his mind is failing, and his doctors do not believe he will ever recover. "His behavior has been stubborn, bizarre and unpredictable," says a diplomat. "There has been a decline to the point where essentially most of the time he is in a state of dementia." Often, the King does not even know where he is. "Basically, he has no short-term memory," says this source. "There are stories of his speaking to a brother...
...abdication that does not look like one, since an overt abdication could be destabilizing. The solution is to send Fahd off to permanent convalescence at his summer palace in Marbella, Spain. When Fahd is out of the country, Abdullah acts as regent. "What we are seeing," says a diplomat, "are the last days of King Fahd." Says another: "You can assume that if he winds up in Marbella, he is not going back to Saudi Arabia. It will be the Saudi way of handling the fact that Fahd is no longer...