Bill Jenkins
Parler de Bill Jenkins, c’est parler de quelqu’un à qui s’appliquerait le testament spirituel de Gogol : « Que chacun accomplisse son oeuvre… Ne soyez pas des âmes mortes, mais des âmes vivantes ».
A Day in the Life of a Canadian in Kabul
Lt. Col. David Leslie was the senior Canadian officer with the United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan (UNGOMAP). The following article is based on his impressions and observations after six months in Afghanistan and before the last of the…
Over the Khunjerab to Kashgar
In May 1986, the governments of Pakistan and China announced the opening to foreign nationals of the Karakorum Highway over the Khunjerab Pass. At an altitude of 16,000 feet, the Khunjerab is reportedly the highest paved mountain crossing in the world. Its…
Freedom is Rising: Popular Black Music in South Africa
Dedicated to David Webster, friend, African music lover and human rights worker murdered May 1, 1989 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
DIPLOCOR INTERNATIONAL
In an age when the concept of “privatization” was being applied to a growing number of public sector services, it was hardly a surprise when the following advertisement appeared in the June 1992 international editions of major European and North American publications.
What I Have Learned about Washington
The following speech was given to the National Press Club in Washington on December 20, 1988, just before Mr. Gotlieb ended his 7 year assignment as Canada’s Ambassador to the United States.
The Trauma of Uruguay
Lest my “Tales from External Affairs” in earlier issues of bout de papier give the impression that life in the Canadian Foreign Service is a succession of amusing pleasantries, let me relate the most traumatic episode in my three-decades career, viz. receiving…
TCP’s
It is unlikely that there is a parent in the world who has not at one time or another been beseeched to add a pet, either furred, feathered or finned, to the household
NATO: Does Life Begin at 40?
This is a year of many anniversaires. 50 years ago the most destructive war the world has ever seen broke out. 44 years ago VE- and VJ-Days marked the end of that war, and with it the emergence of a new bipolar…
Reflections on Leaving the Foreign Service
The month of August 1961 stands sharply etched in my mind for two reasons. On the tenth day of that month my wife and I took a taxi to Berlin’s Templehof airport and left the city where we had lived for two…
