+ Follow AMBASSADOR FRANCIS J Tag
AMBASSADOR FRANCIS J
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[ArticleID] => 268120
[Title] => Ghost Soldiers / A war heroine / The Battle of Manila
[Summary] => In late January, US Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone presided at ceremonies commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Cabanatuan Raid and the opening of the embassy historical garden. Co-hosts were Deputy Chief of Mission Joseph Mussomeli and Public Affairs Officer Ronald Post.
[DatePublished] => 2005-02-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135822
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[SectionName] => Opinion
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[ArticleID] => 266731
[Title] => What can the US learn from Pinoy elections?
[Summary] => 
"Vote for the man who promises least. He’ll be the least disappointing." – Bernard Baruch (1870-1965)
"Dear Jack: Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary.
I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide." – Tycoon Joseph Kennedy, father of President John F. Kennedy
[DatePublished] => 2004-11-07 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804897
[AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores
[SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle
[SectionUrl] => sunday-life
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[ArticleID] => 223091
[Title] => GMA draws clearer battle lines for 2004
[Summary] => FALLING INTO PLACE: Last time we checked, which was yesterday, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was qualified to run for president in the May 2004 election.
We see no reason then why anybody would froth in the mouth denouncing her decision announced yesterday at Clark Field to seek her own presidential mandate.
As expected, the politicians’ reactions were generally along party lines. The opposition assailed her taking back her declaration last December that she had given up presidential aspirations, while her party mates welcomed it.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136322
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804858
[AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr.
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
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[ArticleID] => 219442
[Title] => Not FVR, but somebody else
[Summary] => ANGELES CITY, Pampanga – Although the balloon was floated the other day about ex-President Fidel V. Ramos being offered the post of Secretary of National Defense, President Macapagal-Arroyo’s first choice is someone else.
This she revealed when we had lunch yesterday noon at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport after ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of Clark Field, its US military predecessor.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-02 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133172
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1510184
[AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
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[ArticleID] => 203893
[Title] => Of course, some of that cash stuck to soldiers’ pockets
[Summary] => Let’s not be petty. Naturally somebody like Senator Joker Arroyo had to play the joker by lashing out at President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for daring to earmark P600 million for the sending of a Philippine team to Iraq without the approval of Congress.
Susmariosep: Would dispatching 100 doctors and nurses in a humanitarian mission, plus peacekeepers in the form of 300 soldiers and 100 policemen, constitute an "act of war"? Or bust the budget?
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-27 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133172
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1510184
[AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
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[ArticleID] => 198966
[Title] => RP escapes FATF sanctions
[Summary] => The international body leading a campaign against money laundering said yesterday it had dropped plans to impose financial sanctions on the Philippines after Manila passed a new law aimed at fighting dirty money.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said the new measures, which President Arroyo signed last week, addressed the main legal deficiencies in the country’s anti-money laundering rules.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097308
[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva1
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
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[ArticleID] => 170712
[Title] => Tuna, terrorism, and ‘till we meet again’
[Summary] => Ambassador Bobby Romulo, our former Foreign Affairs Secretary who was assigned as the official "note taker" of yesterday morning’s Palace conference, later described it as a "Feel-Good" meeting. And that’s what it was. Nothing portentous was decided at that intimate gathering, but GMA charmed the whiskers off Colin Powell – and Powell, as always radiating charisma and chutzpah (even in the teeth of setback at home in the foreign policy debate), would have done the same thing to GMA, if she had whiskers.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-04 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133172
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1510184
[AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[ArticleID] => 160617
[Title] => Delightful Discoveries
[Summary] => It was far easier for media to meet US Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone than it was for him to meet the 30 or so of us who attended the cocktails hosted by Public Affairs Officer Dr. Michael "Mike" H. Anderson at his elegant apartment.
We discovered Mr. Ricciardone to be mild-mannered, soft-spoken, candid and forthright; his wife Marie, a molecular biologist, conveyed the impression of being shy, reserved and withdrawn which was just as well: the press is generally "frightened" by overly aggressive diplomats’ wives.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-12 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135850
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1098282
[AuthorName] => table TALK by Rosalinda L. Orosa
[SectionName] => Starweek Magazine
[SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine
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