Kind of thing you might see madam secretary accomplish in her half hour series. I was never really in that kind of position. In fact, i perhaps, the opposite, trouble seemed to follow me where i went. I saw a lot of military mutinies. A lot of coups. I served in iraq. I served in iran. I served in sudan. None of which places were you would call a triumph for american diplomacy. But thinking about, think bing about this, i want to tell a story from iran in 1980. I lived back in before i joined the foreign service, i had lived in iran as a teacher, as a research as a researcher. My wife was iranian. Is iranian. And so i felt i knew the country fairly well. And i went the there as a diplomat in august of 1979. That was about six months after the fall of the, after the fall of the shah and as some may remember, it was also about two and a half months before president carter decided to admit the deposed shah and two weeks after that, a group of, a group of iranian militants, young people, s
Years, served mostly in the middle east or africa. During that time, i didnt see a lot of what you would call successes. There were not a lot of saving the world, stopping a coup, averting a humanitarian disaster , the kind of thing you might see madam secretary accomplish in her halfhour series. I was never really in that kind of position. Perhaps the opposite, trouble seemed to follow me wherever i went. I saw a lot of military mutinies, and i served in iraq, served in sudan. None of which places you would call a triumph for american diplomacy. But thinking about this, i want intell a story from iran 1980. Before i joined the foreign service, i had lived in iran. I was a teacher, a researcher. Iranian. S i thought i knew the country fairly well. I went there as a diplomat. August of 1979. That was about six months after shah and alsohe about two and a half months before president carter decided to admit the deposed shah and a few weeks after that a group of iranian militants stormed
I was never really in that kind of position. Perhaps the opposite, trouble seemed to follow me wherever i went. I saw a lot of military mutinies , i served in iraq, served in sudan. None of which places would call hi am for american diplomacy. I had lived in iran. I went there as a diplomat. It was also about two and a half months before president carter decided to admit the deposed shaw and a few weeks after that a group of iranian militants stormed the epicene. Something vaguely like a student sit in. The and that the adults in the room would eventually get together and straighten it all out. Clearly that was not going to happen. About a month into these events, when i received a care package from home, with some clean andrwear and clean socks some books. You can see there was a message there. Length about 1000 pages. Telling me something, you are not going anywhere. War and peace is wonderful. Middlemarch has to be the most boring book in the english language. I since realized that
It was a hot weekend across the bay area. If youre headed to the fruitvale b. A. R. T. Station in oakland, low 60s as we normally see but we will also see a little bit more in the way of cloud cover, as we go throughout the day, with our south bay High Temperatures reaching into the mid to upper 80s. Ill have a look at some cooler air in the forecast, coming up. As we get out on the roads this morning, a couple of issues mainly for the trivalley right now in parts of the east bay, getting a closer look at a new crash on the 580 eastbound route, heading on to the onramp at hopyard. We have a new crash there so hopefully it doesnt slow things down too much and we get that cleaned up very soon so ill keep an eye on that and the rest of the bay area. Its coming up in just a few minutes. Thank you, kari. This morning, a feeling of overwhelming pain and loss across the nation. One week after the shooting rampage in gilroy, two more cities are now in mourning, as gunmen carried out Mass Shoot
Francine welcome to bloomberg surveillance. These are your markets. A lot of focus is on the Corporate News and a lot of the focus on the data we have from the u. S. European stocks are pretty much unchanged. Technology stocks are better than expected. But some of them are still disappointed. If you look at it, a lot of it is stock by stock. Eurodollar at 1. 1134. And then you can see the pound at 1. 2428 after jeanclaude said no. Coming up, right here, we hear from the renault chief executive. That interview in around 15 minutes from now, plus, we speak to the u. S. Secretary of state, and later on, to the starbucks chief executive. All of that coming up and much more. Lets get straight to first word news in london. Governments need to pitch in with fiscal measures if conditions in europe keep deteriorating. That is according to mario draghi. He signals more monetary support in september buts comments suggest the central bank is getting close to the limits of its power. The outlook is