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John Negroponte

John Dimitri Negroponte (/ˌnɛɡroʊˈpɒnti/; born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat. He is currently a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Prior to this appointment, he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State, and the first ever Director of National Intelligence.

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To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Democratic, Election, Elections, Reform, Think, Thinking

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

Consensus, Country, Doe, Represent, Support

It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.

Iraq, Lies, Lying, Mistake, Mistakes, View

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

Considering, Program, Reality, Touch, Work

We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.

Bolster, Fighting, Forces, Military, Motivation, Salvadoran

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

Couple, Geographic, Nicaragua, Situation, Taken, War

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Jack Steinberger

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Nance O'Neil

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Thomas Bernhard

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Hideki Yukawa

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Jon Connor

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Fernando Arrabal

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