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WASHINGTON, D.C.: His diplomatic immunity revoked, Georgian diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze, the Republic of Georgia's number-two envoy in Washington, turned himself in to Washington, D.C. police Thursday to face charges that his drunken driving caused the death of a 16-year-old girl earlier this year. Cruising through busy downtown streets at speeds up to 85 mph, Makharadze had careened into a line of cars waiting at a stoplight on Connecticut Avenue, setting off a fatal chain reaction. If found guilty of manslaughter, the 35-year-old diplomat could spend the next 30 years in a U.S. prison, with...
...after the 1939 outbreak of World War II. The only son of Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Randolph was a womanizer, and the marriage was tempestuous. When he left to battle Germans, Pamela began a series of love affairs. The most important was with Averell Harriman, the top U.S. envoy in Britain, from whom she channeled intelligence information to her father-in-law to help draw the U.S. into the war. When Harriman moved to Moscow two years later as ambassador, she began a torrid romance with cbs broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, the love of her life, who proposed, then...
...amidst "tremendous tension." Early in the day, the entire session abruptly ended after Cabinet ministers received word from an Israeli TV report that the United States did not intend to let Israel decide for itself the extent of troop withdrawals from the West Bank. Debate resumed only after U.S. envoy Dennis Ross called each of the ministers to assure them that the report was not official U.S. policy. For the Palestinian cabinet, approval was easy. A final vote count was not made available, but according to Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Cabinet authorized the agreement by a large...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In an abrupt reversal, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze ordered diplomat Gueorgui Makharadze to remain in the U.S. to face a possible second-degree murder charge. Makharadze, the No. 2 envoy at the Georgian Embassy, had reportedly booked a Saturday flight to Georgia on Thursday after receiving instructions to return home amid a growing outcry to revoke his diplomatic immunity. Makharadze was involved in a high-speed five-car pileup a week ago that killed a teenage girl. Although it appeared at the time that alcohol was a factor in the wreck, Makharadze was not tested because...
JERUSALEM: Yasser Arafat angrily rejected an Israeli compromise proposal to complete its troop withdrawal from the West Bank in May 1998, a year earlier than Netanyahu has previously offered. For Arafat, it remains a year too late. U.S. envoy Dennis Ross presented the proposal to the Palestinian leader in what an Arafat aide described as an "extremely tense" six-hour meeting that lasted until early today. "The talks have hit a serious crisis," Arafat spokesman Nabil Abourdeneh told Voice of Palestine radio. "The Israelis are threatening the peace process by making such proposals." The terms for the Israeli removal from...