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...been focused on ending the country's long-running war in the south, which has killed more than 2 million people. Prodded to take action by an unlikely alliance of the religious right and the Congressional Black Caucus, Bush appointed former Missouri Senator John Danforth as a special peace envoy to Sudan and pressured Khartoum and the southern rebels to put down their weapons. But just as a peace deal looked imminent, Darfur exploded. Rather than risk a collapse of the deal in the south, the Administration--and much of the international community--chose to avoid the issue. "They didn...
...from the embryos to develop treatments for diseases, including diabetes and Alzheimer's. Papal Sanction AUSTRIA A court in St. Poelten, near Vienna, gave a former student at a Catholic seminary in the city a six-month suspended jail sentence for possessing child pornography. A day earlier, a papal envoy investigating wider allegations of sexual impropriety shut down the college. In the Frame ROMANIA Prosecutors indicted Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu and 79 other officials on charges of fraud in relation to the sale of state-owned ships in the early 1990s, at an alleged loss of €275 million. Basescu...
...Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China...
America's two main diplomats at the time were John Adams in London and Jefferson in Paris. Together they called upon Ambassador Abdrahaman, the envoy of Tripoli in London, in March 1786. This dignitary mentioned a tariff of three payments--for the ransom of slaves and hostages, for cheap terms of temporary peace and for more costly terms of "perpetual peace." He did not forget to add his own commission as a percentage. Adams and Jefferson asked to know by what right he was exacting these levies. The U.S. had never menaced or quarreled with any of the Muslim powers...
...same time, the recent deal to end the fighting in Fallujah, which handed security responsibility to a unit composed largely of officers of the former military and included some insurgents in its ranks, suggested that at least some among the insurgents may be open to cutting deals. UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi urged the new government to pursue talks with insurgent groups, so that genuine Iraqi nationalists among them could be brought in and given a stake in a post-Saddam order. Neighboring Arab countries, as well as Coalition partners such as Britain, have also warned that the only...