Word: ambassador
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South Africa's ambassador to the United States praised Nelson Mandela's leadership and character while enthusiastically endorsing his country's president-elect in a speech last night in the Kennedy School of Government's (KSG) Starr Auditorium...
Franklin Sonn, the first U.S. ambassador from a democratic South Africa, used anecdotes to characterize Mandela's presidency as exceptionally principled. Toward the end of his talk, he offered a glowing vision of the future under Thabo Mbeki, the country's new president-elect...
Sonn designated the speech as his "valedictory address to America," since it comes at the end of his four-year term as ambassador...
...then, on April 29, the spoiler: Raymond L. Flynn, the popular former mayor of Boston and ex-U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, announced that he would not challenge L. Scott Harshbarger '72 for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Instead, he said, he was joining the race for the Eighth...
...talks half-heartedly about restoring funding to the depleted Iraqi opposition in absentia. And the U.S. and Britain rattle some more sabers at Saddam, insisting that it'll be different next time. "Force will be used with no further warning if compliance is not forthcoming," said Britain's U.N. ambassador Jeremy Greenock. He may even have believed...