Word: javier
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...distinguished role models who through their achievements have brought great pride to members of their ethnic group and other Americans. Two of the finest examples of distinguished guests who have participated in our cultural recognition program are Dr. Lauro F. Cavazos, former U.S. Secretary of Education (Leverett House) and Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations (Quincy House). At our request, these and other distinguished guests took time from their busy schedules to spend the day with our undergraduate students...
...peace. No sooner had Baker, briefing reporters, uttered his first "regrettably" than a haggle of diplomats began to accelerate the push for alternative peace initiatives. Among them were efforts by the French, the European Community and the Algerians to act as interlocutors. Most notably, United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced he would go to Baghdad to see Saddam. "The window for peace has not widened, but neither has it been slammed shut," said German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher...
...Javier Ariz, a Catholic auxiliary bishop in Peru, says Protestants make their gains by invading "areas where the people are naturally very religious and the Catholic Church has been chronically short of priests." Protestants, for example, provide the only community leadership in many parts of Peru that have been overrun by Shining Path terrorists. In Guatemala too, Evangelical pastors have saturated rural areas, greatly outnumbering Catholic priests. At the same time, they have been charged with interfering in traditional Indian ways of life...
...counterproductive and self-defeating. It would hand a victory to Saddam Hussein, giving him both the resolve to continue the war and the breathing space he needs to retrench. Both Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), who led the fight against the use-of-force resolutions, and U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who made a last ditch appeal for peace, have spoken out against a unilateral cease-fire. One doesn't throw the first punch and then try to reason with the person thus provoked...
Those familiar with negotiations, however, said they still held out some hope that a shooting war could be avoided. Specifically, some pointed to the expected trip by U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar to Baghdad on Saturday as a chance to work something out that would satisfy both the Americans and the Iraqis...