Schifter

"There is an opportunity to change the politics, but my own sense is that's unlikely," says Michael Schifter, director of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think tank.

Ex-Argentine President N Matt Moffett 2010

Ilan Schifter, a recent graduate of NYU's ITP, came up with a inflatable game-space for toddlers called ToddlePuff.

Boing Boing 2008

Ambassador Schifter will, on behalf of the President and the Secretary of State, encourage officials of the regional countries to launch the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative in the coming weeks.

Schifter Is Advisor For Southeast Europe Initiative ITY National Archives 1996

In the spring of 1986, I worked with Dick Schifter, assistant secretary of state for human rights affairs, Elliott Abrams, and others in an unpublicized but tough fight within the administration to develop a dramatically different position toward Chile.

Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

Perhaps most noteworthy was the discussion of human rights matters under the leadership on our side of Assistant Secretary of State Dick Schifter.

Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

Perhaps most noteworthy was the discussion of human rights matters under the leadership on our side of Assistant Secretary of State Dick Schifter.

Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

In the spring of 1986, I worked with Dick Schifter, assistant secretary of state for human rights affairs, Elliott Abrams, and others in an unpublicized but tough fight within the administration to develop a dramatically different position toward Chile.

Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

Ambassador Schifter deplores Fidel Castro's "gall" in demanding that "the United States government allow Cuban operatives to inspect our prisons," thus indicating that we are not prepared to show the openness that we have long demanded of other countries, and especially of those countries that have not been willing or ready to call what now appears to be our bluff.

'In Cuban Prisons': Another Exchange Evenson, Debra 1988

Ambassador Schifter has recently been involved in negotiations with the Soviets involving the possibility of reciprocal visits to prisons and psychiatric hospitals.

'In Cuban Prisons': Another Exchange Evenson, Debra 1988

"It was a matter of recognizing that the United States had saved our lives," Schifter said.

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