Word: foreign
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Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach demanded the "perpetual eradication" of the Khmer Rouge...
...many foreign capitals, official reaction to Bush's new ambassadors is diplomatically neutral. But privately, there is plenty of hand wringing and even some scorn. Secchia, says a senior Italian official, is "a very nice man, but he doesn't know anything." The Bahamas, says a source close to the government, tried to dissuade the U.S. from naming Hecht as Ambassador, but now that he has been selected "there ain't nothing much you can do, just grin and bear it." And although Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke went out of his way to praise nominee Sembler, his choice...
Sensing political advantage, Senate Democrats are holding up the confirmations of several Bush nominees. Republicans argue that the Democratic objections are hypocritical. "Every four years the out party says the ambassadors aren't qualified," comments a Bush foreign policy aide. During confirmation hearings last week on the nomination of Joseph Gildenhorn as Ambassador to Switzerland, Minnesota Republican Rudy Boschwitz huffed that being rich enough to make hefty political contributions should not disqualify a candidate but should be regarded as "a sign of considerable achievement." By that standard, Gildenhorn is well suited for an embassy job. Though the American Academy...
...American appetite for imported goods. So far, that has not happened. The Government announced last week that the trade deficit swelled to $10.2 billion in May, up from $8.3 billion in April. Especially troubling was a 4.3% rise in imports, to a record $40.7 billion, which suggested that foreign brand names remain a powerful enticement for U.S. shoppers...
Fate and circumstance combine to limit the death toll in what is nevertheless the tenth worst air crash in U.S. history. -- On the diplomatic front: a senior U.S. foreign service officer is suspected of espionage, and George Bush is accused of giving embassy jobs to wealthy but unqualified supporters. -- The Stealth bomber takes to the skies -- but Congress may shoot it down...