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Keith Graham, Don Melvin The Carter Center is making a final assault on Guinea worm disease with some hefty fiscal backing. Earlier this week the center announced that a record-breaking [...]

Keith Graham Wole Soyinka took the news in stride Friday: Trying to make peace with the Nobel Prize-winning writer, the military government of Nigeria had dropped treason charges against him [...]

Keith Graham South Africa has two larger-than-life figures: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Nelson Mandela. But next year will mark a major transition as Mandela leaves office. Is Tutu concerned [...]

Keith Graham Severe floods in China have been big news this year, but little has been reported about the equally severe situation in Bangladesh, where as much as a third [...]

Keith Graham He left Afghanistan last Thursday morning, and that evening he heard a BBC report about the U.S. strike against an apparent terrorist training camp there. Now Paul Barker [...]

Keith Graham His new home was damaged and his office was destroyed by the bomb blast that struck the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam earlier this month. But the [...]

Keith Graham He was originally expected in 1996, but at last Archbishop Desmond Tutu is expected to arrive at Emory University today. The Nobel Peace Prize winner from South Africa [...]

Keith Graham Wyche Fowler arrived in Saudi Arabia not long after a deadly bombing at a U.S. military facility. 'And we bombed Iraq three days after I got there,' the [...]

Keith Graham First came the bad news: 21-year-old Nisha Anand of Atlanta and 17 other foreign activists were sentenced to five years of hard labor for handing out pro-democracy leaflets. [...]

Keith Graham If a 50th anniversary celebration is an important event, why shouldn't a 51st be even more important? Last year, the Indian-American community in Atlanta celebrated the golden anniversary [...]

Keith Graham Young idealists, they merely wanted to make a quiet statement in support of democracy. But the simple act of handing out leaflets has landed 18 foreign activists, including [...]

Keith Graham Let's hope we do this election right. Tuesday, a delegation of high-ranking officials responsible for conducting elections in 930,000 villages in China plans to be in Georgia to [...]

Don Melvin, Keith Graham August is upon us, so France must be about to close. Well, perhaps that's a bit of an exaggeration, but not much. Across Europe, people take [...]

Keith Graham The horror stories continue to mount in Indonesia where the ethnic Chinese minority has been targeted as a scapegoat for a lingering economic crisis. Not only are Chinese [...]

Keith Graham, Don Melvin Leaders in the United States are not the only ones who talk about the need to shrink government. The Foreign Ministry of China is preparing to [...]

Don Melvin, Keith Graham Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, is volunteering in South Africa with the Peace Corps, but his thoughts, it seems, are not so far [...]

Don Melvin, Keith Graham Atlanta-based CARE is involved in a controversial program in Kenya to rescue girls as young as 10 from being sold by their parents into forced marriages. [...]

Don Melvin, Keith Graham Tom Alcedo, CARE's country director for India, was in Atlanta this week to consult with officials at headquarters, and he took time to talk about CARE's [...]

Keith Graham You don't have to agree with what Madeleine Albright says to be impressed with her enthusiasm for world affairs. Washington --- The microphone already had been turned off, [...]

Don Melvin, Keith Graham Former President Jimmy Carter, 73, remains a vigorous participant in world affairs. Carter, who defused a crisis over North Korea's nuclear program in 1994 and who [...]

Keith Graham Worries about the global economy and nuclear proliferation will be wiped away with one word for fevered partisans around the world, starting Wednesday: 'G-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-a-a-a-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l!' Yes, soccer's World Cup [...]

Keith Graham South Asia has taken precedence over East Asia this week among potential hot spots, but the Independent Task Force on Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula says Korea [...]

Keith Graham In a 'M*A*S*H' rerun aired in the Atlanta market this month, Capt. 'Hawkeye' Pierce is temporarily put in charge of his unit and learns painful lessons about the [...]

Don Melvin, Keith Graham Colombia's high commissioner for peace visited Atlanta on Wednesday, trying to spread the message that there's more to his country than drugs --- there's also armed [...]

Keith Graham Earlier this year, it was Cuba. Now, the Atlanta-based Friendship Force is sending an exchange to Iran. 'The significance of this historic journey cannot be overstated,' says Friendship [...]

Keith Graham Remembrance, Iris Chang believes, is the hope of the future. But what Chang, 30, would have her readers remember is strong stuff: In her best-selling book, 'The Rape [...]

Don Melvin, Keith Graham Despite increasing tensions and mistrust between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government, the Oslo peace accords remain alive, a former Israeli Cabinet member said in [...]

Keith Graham, Don Melvin The photographs show men, women and children lying dead, shoulder to shoulder, half-covered by a sheet. Many have numerous gunshot wounds. Some were beaten or tortured: [...]

Keith Graham, Don Melvin European security from the perspective of the United Kingdom will be the topic for a presentation Monday sponsored by the Center for International Strategy, Technology and [...]

Keith Graham Yasuo Saito had something different in mind months ago when he agreed to take part in a lecture series on Asian issues at Georgia Tech. Asked to speak [...]

Keith Graham, Don Melvin May 6-10, Atlanta will host the first of eight regional conferences designed to heighten public awareness of Africa. The goal of the events is to develop [...]

Keith Graham In the rough-and-tumble of South Korean politics, Lee Hong-koo has played a large role for a decade. A courtly and dignified man with a surprisingly hearty laugh, he [...]

Don Melvin, Keith Graham When some Atlantans of Greek origin wanted to build a memorial to the links between the Centennial Olympics and the origin of the games in ancient [...]

Keith Graham From the day he landed in Atlanta in 1960, Cho Young-joon lived for 35 years in the United States. Now he's back where he wants to be --- [...]

Keith Graham People flying into Seoul often comment on all the crosses atop churches. Christian churches --- Protestant, Catholic and even Orthodox --- are prominent in the city, and the [...]

Keith Graham A more visible and active Asian community: That's the goal of an organization that held its first biannual meeting earlier this week. Organized in November, the Asian-Pacific American [...]

Keith Graham ***** Correction: 3/20/98, Page A/2: A photo on Page A/16 in Thursday's paper was incorrectly captioned. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was shown at the far left of [...]

Keith Graham Irish pubs are a hit in Korea, drawing expatriates and locals; both groups are familiar with struggle for independence. The flicker of gas logs in the hearth casts [...]

Keith Graham All around the clown at the 500-year-old Namdaemun Market, crowds swarmed stalls peddling everything from eyeglasses to whole hogs, their faces curled into smiles. But the clown was [...]

Keith Graham 'We've reformed ourselves,' promises the big banner in pink and yellow on the Korea First Bank building in downtown Seoul. 'Your deposits are very safe.' 'We have government [...]

Keith Graham Glittering in the lobby of the headquarters of one of South Korea's largest conglomerates, the new sedans were attracting a crowd. 'Very pretty,' said one admirer, a university [...]

Keith Graham The flower vendors lining the street leading to Dongguk University were doing a brisk trade. Even in what South Koreans call 'the IMF era' of national belt-tightening, you [...]