Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day, Primakov telephoned Albright, who was in New Delhi as part of a tour of South Asia and the Middle East. Iraq was willing to take back the inspectors with no strings attached, the Russian envoy believed, although he refused to fax Albright a copy of the one-page statement he had drafted because Aziz hadn't yet obtained Baghdad's approval of its terms...
TARIQ AZIZ His boss is a nutter, but smooth-talking envoy has survived purges and a thousand talk shows...
...other countries in the world. Since old times, the Chinese people came to know full well the importance of "drawing widely upon others' strong points to improve oneself." The Han and Tang dynasties were both an age of economic prosperity and also one of flourishing international exchanges. Imperial envoy Zhang Qian's trip to the "West" in the Han Dynasty, over 2,000 years ago, opened up the world-famous Silk Road; Eminent Monk Xuan Zang, of the Tang Dynasty, brought back ancient culture after braving the long journey to South Asian countries. In the Ming Dynasty, Chinese navigator Cheng...
Kissel succeeded in this recital not only as interpreter and creator, but as a sort of envoy. If the warm and consistent applause, culminating in a standing ovation, can be taken as a testament, the audience left not only pleased with Kissel's performance, but with a favorable impression of new music and as proof of its enduring vitality.Kathryn M. VerdirameCLASSIC CONTEMPORARY: MARY E. KISSEL '99 performed to an enthralled crowd...
...Alfred Defago, has correctly deduced that he needs the best p.r. advice Swiss francs can buy. So he has turned to Jay Footlik, who recently rounded off more than three years as the Clinton White House's chief liaison to America's Jewish community. Footlik has begun helping the envoy orchestrate a campaign of meetings with Jewish groups that began shortly before the High Holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur...