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Another crucial convert was the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's courtly porcupine, chairman Jesse Helms, who had signaled which candidates would never get past his committee. Aides say the North Carolina Senator always had a soft spot for Albright as a fellow full-throated anticommunist. He was delighted that she...
"I'll come, but on one condition," Albright told Helms over the phone. "That you come with me and introduce me."
As the two whispered and joked on the dais, Elizabeth Fentress, the luncheon's organizer, says, "you might have thought they were old friends from high school." After lunch Helms draped his napkin over his arm like a waiter, grabbed the dessert tray from the center of the table and...
"I tell it like it is." Desired translation: she's going to be very tough on human rights. Actual translation: she's going to talk very tough on human rights to tin-pot dictators but keep the tone civil with big countries like China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Fidel Castro...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Clinton Administration is counting on the press to do what the U.S. government has been unable to do for decades: bring down Fidel Castro. As part of its continuing effort to flood Cuba with information, and spur democratic reforms in the process, the Administration is set to...