Madeleine Albright
Born May 15, 1937
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Czech refugee from World War II who became the first female secretary of state
Madeleine Albright. AP/Wide World Photos.
"The ...
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A professor and foreign policy expert, Madeleine Korbel Albright (born 1937) was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1992 to be the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and head of t...
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Nicolas Sarkozy made a minor gaffe on his first U.S. visit as France's president by wrongly suggesting that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recent immigrant roots.Sarkozy, in improvised rem...
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Nicolas Sarkozy made a minor gaffe on his first U.S. visit as France's president by wrongly suggesting that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recent immigrant roots.Sarkozy, in improvised rem...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY NEEDS TIME (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
IF NIGERIA IS A yardstick for sub-Saharan Africa, then Africa is
moving si...
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A history of official contact _ and near misses _ between U.S. and Iranian officials.Relations cooled in early 1979 when Ayatollah Khomeini ousted the shah. In November of that year Iranian militan...
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Abuja (dpa) - International observer overseeing Nigeria's
presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday said it was
worried about the manner in which the exercise had b...
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