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...novelist and politician, to four years in prison for perjury; in London. Archer, the best-selling author of Kane and Abel, had diaries forged to support his 1987 libel suit against the Star newspaper, which reported that he had sex with a prostitute. NATURALIZED. VICTOR ARITOMI, 64, former Peruvian envoy to Japan and brother-in-law of ex-President Alberto Fujimori, as a Japanese citizen; in Tokyo. Aritomi, who gave up Japanese citizenship 10 years ago, is now shielded from standing trial for allegedly helping Fujimori divert $15 million as a "golden parachute" payment to spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos. ELECTED. JACQUES...
...court this week to hear the charges against him. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Mediators pulled Macedonia back from civil war after the evacuation of armed ethnic Albanian rebels from a village near the capital sparked violent Macedonian Slav protests. Amid a flurry of diplomatic activity - a new E.U. envoy, François Léotard, arrived in Skopje - NATO approved a conditional plan to deploy 3,000 troops and Macedonia's Interior Ministry said it would demobilize some police reservists. Earlier in the week, U.S. President Bush signed an order barring Americans from financing the rebels, a move NATO...
...wearing swimsuits crossed from the beach to the mosque to hurl stones at a few dozen worshipers and to charge police, who brought up water cannon and horses. Even many of the left-wingers who support the peace process are on board with Sharon's tough line. When U.S. envoy William Burns met with top Israeli politicians last Monday, Sharon stepped aside and let archdove Shimon Peres make the government's anti-Arafat pitch...
...LANKA Peace Talks Norwegian-led efforts to secure a truce between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels were complicated by a bomb attack on a rebel leader and demands by a leading Muslim party for a role in the peace process. Envoy Erik Solheim held talks with President Chandrika Kumaratunga and met Tamil leaders in rebel-held territory, but discussions ended without a breakthrough. Both sides agreed to continue deliberations to end the 18-year conflict...
Among those who gathered in Philadelphia in 1776, Adams was one of the first to advocate independence. The following year, he was sent as an envoy to Paris, where he worked with Benjamin Franklin and later Thomas Jefferson. They were both more polished and popular than Adams--and certainly less Puritan in their approach to the pleasures of Paris. After the war Adams became America's first ambassador to England, where he again proved stiffly reliable but devoid of the courtiers' charms that counted for so much in the world of European diplomacy...