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...CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN Former Senator wins New Zealand ambassadorship. Now, no more cavorting with dictators...
NOMINATION PROCRASTINATION Despite Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms' staunch disapproval, Carol Moseley-Braun has been confirmed for an ambassadorship, The bullish 78-year-old seems to have a problem with almost every nominee...
...longer facing him across the floor of the United States Senate, but Carol Moseley-Braun and Jesse Helms are still battling it out. When the White House announced the nomination of Moseley-Braun as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand recently, the North Carolina senator jumped into the fray. Citing allegations, never proven, that Moseley-Braun used 1992 campaign funds for personal purchases, he demanded Wednesday that the IRS and Justice Department hand over "sensitive" documents about the former Illinois senator and her staff members. In exchange for the information, Helms would agree to hold hearings on the nomination, which...
...never get so much information together by Helms' November 1 deadline. "That was not realistic," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson. "Everybody knew that." So what's the story behind the scenes in this ongoing drama? Perhaps it's that Helms, a 26-year Senate veteran, repeatedly clashed with Moseley-Braun during her term, most memorably over the use of the Confederate flag. Moseley-Braun, the first black woman to become a senator, later accused Helms of taunting her in an elevator by whistling "Dixie." The White House, meanwhile, appears to be relishing the whole matter, watching Helms get into...
...council also unanimously commended Eva Moseley for her work as manuscripts curator at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library. Moseley, who won the Distinguished Service Award from the New England Archivists in 1995, will deliver the Rothschild Lecture at the Cronkite Graduate Center on Wednesday at 4 p.m. on the occasion of her retirement...