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...China, the crowd issued a murmur of awe, as if to say, "what commitment to our country!" And yet, as the audience should have known, most of these visits were just business; Kissinger Associates, the firm he founded after leaving office, has helped a long list of multinationals enter China. Anthony J. F. O'Reilly, the ex-head of Heinz, a top baby food seller here, explained how Kissinger is especially valued in countries "where the principal players and the dynamics among the principal players are of critical importance. This is particularly true in China, where he is a popular...
...referendum to be held alongside Taiwan's presidential election in March. It would ask the people whether Taiwan should apply to join the United Nations under the name "Taiwan." After Beijing took over Taiwan's U.N. seat in 1971, the island has failed in its attempt to re-enter the body under its formal national title of "Republic of China." Chen says he doesn't want to compete with China for representation, but to find a global voice for Taiwan's 23 million people. Any application to the U.N. by Taiwan would have no chance of succeeding, because China...
...helped get out the vote during chen's re-election campaign.) The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has accused Chen of using the referendum as a political ploy, but the party announced last week that it too would back a referendum. The KMT says it will in endorse attempting to enter the U.N. under a name less likely to encounter resistance, such as Chinese Taipei, the name the island's athletes use when competing in the Olympics. Given Chinese nervousness about the issue, it's unlikely that applying to the U.N. under a different name would fare any better...
...life. (In recent years, he's swapped the gun for round-the-clock bodyguards, although the nickname it earned him, "The Sheriff," has stuck.) He was known as a hands-on investigator who would literally picked through wreckage of a downed airliner, or rent a boat to enter Libya to investigate the agents he accused of blowing it up. And in 1996, Bruguiere arranged the arrest and extradition of notorious terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" - author of a number of bombings in Paris in the 1980s - from Sudan, spirited away after he'd been sedated to undergo surgery on a varicose...
...diaries contain a firsthand account of Blair's response to the terror attacks of 9/11 and a detailed narrative of the negotiations leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the foundation of this year's historic settlement in Northern Ireland that saw old enemies enter into government together. There's even a fair bit of Labour's dirty washing: its internal struggles as it moved towards the center, and a leader, glimpsed here behind the scenes, often impressive but sometimes fretful and indecisive...