Word: proconsulate
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...would reduce the cost to the U.S. of rebuilding Iraq. A senior British official says that if the U.N. backs a war, it would be fairly easy to imagine a postconflict administration in Iraq under U.N. auspices--even if the U.N. had to work with an American military proconsul. Inevitably, the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies will establish an early presence in Iraq to ameliorate short-term hardship. But the U.S., says U.N. Under Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor, has not yet asked the U.N. to prepare for a role in longer-term reconstruction. Assuming the U.N. is indeed asked to help...
...couple's most famous discoveries were hers. One of the earliest occurred in October 1948, when Mary caught the glint of a tooth during an expedition to Lake Victoria's fossil-rich Rusinga Island. It was part of the jaw and skull fragments of a creature called Proconsul africanus, then widely thought to be a human ancestor (though now considered more closely related to the apes). The discovery made them so "exhilarated and also utterly content with each other," Mary wrote in her 1984 biography, Disclosing the Past, "that we cast aside care..." She gave birth to their third...
...Port-au-Prince, Shelton has become the de facto proconsul; his 10th Mountain Division is for the moment Haiti's replacement army, civil service, utility company and public relations firm. In the countryside, 31 U.S. Army Green Beret A Teams, each made up of about 12 soldiers, have quietly fanned out to key towns and villages. They are holding town meetings in Pilate and Plaisance. Further south in Hinche, Special Forces soldiers just completed "Operation Light Switch," getting a generator up and running to restore some power. "The people are now out in the streets," said a secret report sent...
...Skip") Gnehm Jr., 46, the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait. The "problem" was really a fear. Many Kuwaitis were afraid that the U.S., after having freed their country from Iraq's domination, aimed to run the place as an American colony and that Skip Gnehm was George Bush's designated proconsul...
...resistance leader who stayed behind when the government fled to exile last August. "It's the government's own incompetence that has made them wary of someone who knows what he's doing. The fact is, we would probably be in better shape today if we had made Gnehm proconsul...