HANDICAPPING THE REPUBLICANS WHO DID NOT LISTEN TO DOLE

THE REPUBLICANS 

TURN THEIR BACKS ON DOLE  

Senator ROBERT J. DOLE (R-Kansas) 

Photographed for Business Week 

Published in the July 19, 1982 issue (p. 52) 

Former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Republican Presidential Nominee Bob Dole, disabled serving his country in World War II, came to the Senate floor today, in a wheelchair, to lend his support to the American ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.  Only eight of the U.S. Senators of the Grand Old Party voted to ratify the treaty.  Thirty-eight Republicans having voted against, the two-thirds majority needed for ratification was not reached. 

KOFI ANNAN TO WORK ON SYRIA CRISIS

THE NEWLY-APPOINTED

U.N.-ARAB LEAGUE

ENVOY ON THE SYRIAN CRISIS

KOFI ANNAN

as

UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL

served from 1997-2006

Co-Winner, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, 2001

Kofi Annan's new post has been called a "near-impossible job." He was officially chosen jointly by his successor at the U.N., Ban Ki-moon, and the head of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby. This was part of the U.N. General Assembly work-around after the Russians and the Chinese made it impossible for the Security Council to sanction the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Some discussions of Annan's record and prospects for success ("is he the right trouble shooter for Syria?") can be found here and here.

JOHN DANFORTH TURNS SEVENTY-FIVE

JOHN "JACK" DANFORTH 

b. September 5, 1936

Published in BUSINESS WEEK

October 3, 1983 (p. 45)

SENATOR JOHN DANFORTH (R-MISSOURI)

December 27, 1976 – January 3, 1995

AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS

July 1, 2004 – January 20, 2005

George W. Bush's second choice for Vice President

Big Clarence Thomas booster for Supreme Court Justice

Ordained Episcopal minister, and lawyer