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...patrician Hurd is the son and grandson of Tory M.P.s. After graduating from Cambridge, he joined the diplomatic service and served in Beijing, Washington and Rome. Eager to break into politics, he joined the Conservative Party's research department in 1966, and two years later became Heath's private secretary. In 1974 Hurd was elected M.P. for mid-Oxfordshire. Under Thatcher he served as Deputy Foreign Secretary, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary. Last year, despite Hurd's advocacy of closer ties with Europe, Thatcher appointed him to the job he had always wanted, Foreign Secretary...
...emotion completely ebbed now that Europe is remaking itself. Last week in Italy and Belgium, investigators were looking into possible links between the clandestine networks and episodes of right-wing terrorism during the past 20 years. In Rome, Admiral Fulvio Martini, head of military intelligence, testified before a parliamentary committee. Italy's paramilitary group, dubbed Gladio (Sword), had 622 members and 139 stockpiles of arms and explosives hidden around the country, Martini said. When the caches were gathered up in 1972, he added, 10 were found empty. One of them had contained eight kilos of plastic explosive, leading left-wing...
Before assuming his current post in Los Angeles two years ago, Bonfante served more than 13 years as a TIME foreign correspondent -- six years based ! in Rome, seven in Paris -- and covered political campaigns from Galicia to Anatolia. This year he was charged with reporting not only the most important gubernatorial race in the nation, between Republican Pete Wilson and Democrat Dianne Feinstein, but also California congressional races and ballot initiatives. To do so, he teamed up with correspondent Jeanne McDowell and senior correspondent Edwin Reingold, who spent 11 years as Tokyo bureau chief, as well as photographer P.F. Bentley...
...biggest contributors are Saudi Arabia at $8 billion, which includes transportation, water and fuel for the troops poised there, and Kuwait at $4 billion. Under pressure from the U.S., Japan doubled its pledge to $4 billion, while Germany and the European Community have each provided $2 billion. In Rome last week, the 24-nation Gulf Crisis Financial Coordination Group agreed to provide $13 billion in aid to nations that have suffered the worst financial damage from trade sanctions on Iraq...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...