Word: envoys
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DIED. AGOSTINO CARDINAL CASAROLI, 83, a tailor's son who became the Vatican's unflappable envoy to Soviet bloc nations in the 1960s; in Rome. Upon his election as Pope, John Paul II quickly named the omnicompetent prelate the Vatican's chief diplomat, a post he filled with skill and judgment from 1979 to 1990. In 1989, in perhaps his most dramatic moment, Casaroli helped broker the meeting between the Pope and Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Which doesn't exactly make Newt the best Mideast envoy the U.S. has ever had. According to TIME's Jerusalem correspondent Jamil Hamad, "Gingrich's statements will be used by Hamas as proof of an American pro-Israeli stance ... there's no doubt this is due to his own political aspirations, but Palestinians don't devalue his statements just because he's a candidate." Whatever political bombs Newt is trying to throw at home, he may regret it if suicide bombs start flying in Jerusalem...
Shugden activists denounce the crime and deny opponents' claims that they receive funds from the Chinese government. But the Chinese, happy at any exile strife, are restoring Shugden temples in occupied Tibet. And Lhodi Gyari, the Lama's Washington envoy, correctly warns that the squabble should not obscure the fact that "a culture and people are being destroyed...
...envoy Dennis Ross arrives in Israel Friday for talks on resolving the standoff. ?Netanyahu is looking for a way of placating the Americans short of the full 13 percent withdrawal from the West Bank,? says Silver. And with the administration -- Hillary exempted -- backing away from tough love by week?s end, Netanyahu believes he?s won this round. After all, an ultimatum that doesn?t carry any consequences simply isn?t an ultimatum...
Clinton, one of 40 million Americans who claim some Irish heritage, was strongly pro-Irish during his 1992 presidential campaign. He called for a special U.S. envoy then, but after winning he backed down under pressure from London. During his first year in office Clinton twice turned down visa requests by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to visit the U.S., because he refused to renounce violence as a means of ending British rule in the North. In January 1994, Adams applied again. He still refused to rule out violence, but, hoping that he would, and over the protests...