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...generals have yet to answer two key questions: where is Suu Kyi, and is she in good health? The only outsider to see her, U.N. special envoy Razali Ismail, was made to switch cars on his way to their meeting in June, according to a Western diplomat in Bangkok. "They did everything but blindfold him," says the diplomat. "He had no idea where he was." Razali initially told reporters that Suu Kyi was in good spirits, but later said that she was being held in poor conditions. Meanwhile, her vice chairman in the NLD, veteran activist Tin Oo, was reported...
...President asked a question about the implication of the report." Cheney's interest hardly came as a surprise: he has long been known to harbor some of the most hard-line views of Saddam's nuclear ambitions. It was not long before the agency quietly dispatched a veteran U.S. envoy named Joseph Wilson to investigate...
When he went to Paris as an envoy during the Revolution, Franklin proved himself a master of the diplomatic doctrine of realism by playing an adroit balance-of-power game between France, Spain, the Netherlands and later Britain. In a memo he wrote to the wily French Foreign Minister Vergennes, whose realist outlook was summarized by his maxim that "the influence of every power is measured by the opinion one has of its intrinsic force," Franklin emphasized the cold calculation of national interests that he knew the minister would appreciate. If France and her ally Spain joined the American cause...
...continued meeting with Arafat to win his support for implementing the "roadmap" despite Washington's official policy of ignoring the PA leader. And while U.S. officials have so far avoided a face-to-face meeting, the man chairing Monday's meeting between PA security officials and President Bush's envoy, John Wolf, was Al-Tayib Abdel Rahim, Arafat's top political aide...
...thousands of elderly Greek Cypriots who visited old homes for the first time since 1974. Greeks and Turks treat each other with studied civility, welcoming strangers into their homes and sending them away with gifts of lemons and flowers. "It really is unprecedented," says Thomas Weston, U.S. special envoy to the island. "There is a tremendous amount of goodwill." Serdar agrees that the opening is a "success for the people of Cyprus." And, he hopes...