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***Glaspie for a teaching career***
WASHINGTON : A. Glaspie. the US ambassador to Iraq when the Gulf crisis erupted last summer, is planning to leave the diplomatic service to pursue a career In teaching, according to informed State Department sources, reports AP.
The sources, asking not to be identified, said Glaspie, who turns 49 on Friday, hopes to become a college professor.
The circumstances of her decision to leave the foreign service after 25 years were not clear Some of her colleagues believe she was treated unfairly when the department did not take a strong stand on her behalf after the Iraqi government left the impression that she had acquiesced beforehand in Iraq's Aug. 2 Invasion of Kuwait.
An Iraqi transcript of Glaspie's conversation with President Saddam Hussein on July 25 quoted her as saying the United States takes "no position" on Iraq's border dispute with Kuwait. Iraq invaded Kuwait a week later.
The department's refusal to respond energetically to the Iraqi account of her conversation with Saddam was widely portrayed as an attempt to make her a scapegoat for the crisis that ensued.
***Monkeys ready for sit-in***
BANGKOK: The invitations have gone out. and hundreds of monkeys are eagerly awaiting their second annual sit-down brunch courtesy of a hotel owner, reports AP.
Yongyoot Kltwattanusoan, owner of the Lopburl Inn, said Monday he is spending 32,000 dollars to throw the base — complete with waiters, menus and napkins — for about 600 monkeys on Sunday.
Yongyoot offers the vegetarian meal to thank the monkeys for the success of his hotel in Lopburi, a small provincial capital about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Bangkok. The monkeys, who stay at the Buddhist shrine of Wat Pra Karn, are symbols of good fortune and a prime attraction for tourists.
He said he sent 60 Invitation cards to the monkeys, who grabbed them and leapt back up the shrine.
It will be a sit-down affair. 1f Yongyoot can keep the furry creatures seated at the 50 tables.
***A Gorby fan in FBI grip***
INDIANAPOLIS : The FBI wanted to know why Joe Lee was writing to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Now the US Postal Service wants to know what business the FBI had in asking, reports AP.
Lee, who is a longtime celebrity autograph collector, sent a letter last winter to the Soviet president and asked for a signed photograph.
On Tuesday, the FBI showed up at his doorstep.
They showed me their badges and said, we're with the FBI. Can we come in. Please? ' said Lee, 28, a courier service dispatcher.
They were very polite, very nice. But they got right to the point." Lee said. They said they had reason to believe Lee had been in contact with someone in China or the Soviet Union. Lee then simple showed him his albums full of signed pictures from such celebrities as Elizabeth Taylor, former pro football star Joe Theismann. Sen. Edward Kennedy and Vice President Dan Quayle
"I must haw done a good Job of convincing them because they didn't ta ke me in." Lee said.
He said the agents told him the inquiry was routine. But a query Wednesday from a reporter for the Indianapolis Star about the FBI visit raised the curiosity of local postal in spectors, who wanted to know why the autograph hound was hounded.
Tn fact, the inspection service is concerned that something was happening there that shouldn't be, and (inspectors said) that we should advise this customer that we would look Into this." said US Postal Service spokesman John Henry.