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Charles T. Manatt dies at 75; Democratic Party leader and diplomat
Charles T. Manatt, who founded one of the biggest and most influential law firms in Los Angeles and then became a political power as chairman of the state and national Democratic parties, died Friday night. He was 75.
Manatt died at Kindred Hospital in...Tags: Church and State Relations, Adlai Stevenson, Legal Service, Bob Dylan, Business Enterprises
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Was Jon Huntsman campaigning while he was still ambassador?
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersIn Jon Huntsman's final weeks as ambassador to China, he stressed that he would not decide whether to run for president until he returned to the United States -- an important statement, because sitting ambassadors are prohibited from actively taking...Tags: Beijing (China), Chicago Hotels, Political Campaigns, China, George W. Bush
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Archbishop Pietro Sambi dies at 73; Vatican's ambassador to the U.S.
As papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi had the formidable job of representing the Vatican at a time of challenge and scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as escorting Pope Benedict XVI on his 2008 American visit. By...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Israel, Church and State Relations, Religious Leaders, Roman Catholicism
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John R. Hubbard dies at 92; USC president, historian and diplomat
John R. Hubbard, a historian and former U.S. ambassador to India who was president of USC in the 1970s, died Sunday at his Rancho Mirage home after a long illness, the university announced. The broad-shouldered and outspoken Texas native, widely known...Tags: University of Texas at Austin, Education, Iran, History, Fluor Corporation
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McManus: Mosque and state
At a conference two years ago, I sat in on a meeting between U.S. officials and young Islamist politicians from Tunisia, Jordan and other countries in the Middle East. The Islamists wanted to know: Would the Americans allow them to run in free elections,...Tags: Political Systems, Israel, Defense, Iran, National Security
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Unpredictable to the end, Moammar Kadafi ruled Libya for decades
In the modern pantheon of the world's dictators, Moammar Kadafi stood apart. Far apart.
Erratic and mercurial, he fancied himself a political philosopher, practiced an unorthodox and deadly diplomacy, and cut a sometimes cartoonish figure in flowing...Tags: Bombings, Coffee, Transportation Accidents, George W. Bush, Book
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Biden's 'noodle diplomacy' boon for Beijing restaurant
Money & CompanyHe may not have ordered their signature bowl of guts, but Vice President Joe Biden’s stop last week to lunch at a Beijing family-owned eatery during his state visit has proven a boon for business. Diners have reportedly been lining-up...... -
LIBYA: Kadafi son appears at Tripoli hotel
Babylon & BeyondKadafi, a frequent spokesman for the regime and his father's heir apparent, suddenly appeared at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli, one of the remaining holdouts of Kadafi supporters where many international journalists had been confined in recent months.... -
LIBYA: Foreign embassies defect
Babylon & BeyondLibyan Consul Faraj Zarroug in the Philippine capital told the Associated Press that about 85% of his country's 165 diplomatic missions now recognized the rebels' interim government, the National Transitional Council.... -
LIBYA: Rebel government increasingly recognized
Babylon & BeyondLibya's ambassador to Gabon left the country following a formal request by the Gabonese government, a foreign ministry spokesman told Agence France Presse Wednesday.... -
MALTA: Libyan ambassador claims he was a double agent
Babylon & BeyondAmbassador Saadun Suayeh told Malta Today that he is “relieved” to be able to finally talk about the covert role he played supporting the rebel effort against Kadafi during the past six months.... -
Book review: 'In the Garden of Beasts'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAs the events leading up to World War II go, Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 appointment of a naïve history professor as ambassador to Germany — and the professor's decision to take his adventurous adult daughter with him — rank pretty low in...Tags: University of Chicago, Book, Germany, Civil Unrest, Adolf Hitler
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