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	Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative: Maurice Templesman
		Maurice Tempelsman is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lazare Kaplan International Inc., the largest cutter and polisher of "ideal cut" diamonds in the United States.
		Tempelsman has served on several Presidential Commissions including the President’s Commission for the Observance of Human Rights, the Citizen’s Advisory Board of Youth Opportunities and the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee, and was appointed by Governor Carey to the New York Council on International Business.
		Tempelsman is fluent in several languages and his interests are in the fields of history, archaeology, and sailing.
	www.aids.harvard.edu /overview/people/tempelsman.html (297 words)

	Info and facts on 'Maurice Tempelsman' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Maurice Tempelsman (born August 26, 1929) is a Belgian (A native or inhabitant of Belgium) Jewish (additional info and facts about Jewish) diamond merchant and industrialist.
		Jacqueline Onassis died May 19, 1994, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (additional info and facts about non-Hodgkin's lymphoma), a type of cancer.
		After the former first lady's death, Tempelsman became more of a "father figure" to Jackie's childrenCaroline Kennedy Schlossberg (additional info and facts about Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg) and John F. Kennedy Jr.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maurice_tempelsman.htm (176 words)

	CorpWatch : Africa: U.S. Covert Action Exposed
		Tempelsman was named in the ongoing cover-up of U.S.-CIA covert support of the former president of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC]), Mobuto Sese Seko, who died in exile in 1997 after the overthrow of his regime by recently assassinated Congolese President Laurent Kabila.
		Tempelsman is named as the agent in charge of selling off the gross excess of the strategic diamond stockpile in the United States that was used to fund the deceased dictator's exploits.
		Tempelsman was rumored in 1998 to have engaged in a romantic relationship with then-Secretary of State Albright.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=116 (1948 words)

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		A short while later, the State Department wrote a furious letter to Maurice Tempelsman saying that his office, by using an unguarded phone line, had betrayed the identity of the plotters against Nkrumah and the identity of the CIA Head of Station.
		Tempelsman in 1996 persuaded the Assistant Secretary of State George E Moose to give him a letter suggesting that the US would finance Tempelsman's plans.
		Maurice Tempelsman served the De Beers diamond cartel by promoting foreign policy decisions that favoured its access to and control of African diamond fields.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/diamonds1.htm (1566 words)

	News Room - Full Article
		Tempelsman noted that political pressures by producing countries will continue to be a challenge for the diamond industry.
		Tempelsman also alluded to the diamond industry’s impending untested times in his letter to shareholders in the company’s annual report, where he said, “The transformation of the diamond industry continued to fare well in the past year in light of the demand generated by a sustained global GDP growth.
		Tempelsman went on to say, “That test will take place sometime in the future and at a time that cannot be foreseen.
	www.idexonline.com /portal_FullNews.asp?id=24857 (734 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Tempelsman Plan Got The Ear of U.S. Aides
		International diamond dealer Maurice Tempelsman, a generous contributor to the Democratic Party, has won unusual support from high Clinton administration officials for a business proposal that could position him as a key marketer of billions of dollars worth of Angolan diamonds, interviews and classified government cables show.
		At the time of the call, Tempelsman had in hand a letter of praise for his plan from Assistant Secretary of State George E. Moose, a document Tempelsman was able to use to help try to sell his deal to the Angolan government and the rival UNITA party led by Jonas Savimbi.
		An account of the U.S. government's involvement with Tempelsman's diamond proposal was pieced together from government cables and from interviews with officials from the State Department, the NSC, political advisers to UNITA and to the government of Angola and people involved in the diamond industry.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf080297c.htm (1687 words)

	SLU News Maurice Tempelsman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tempelsman's lecture to faculty, staff, students and community business leaders explored the continuing role and responsibility of the state in a free market system.
		Sending a positive message to lecture attendees, Tempelsman said, "The world has changed since the 1940's and as we approach the new century, let me add with anticipation and a measure of optimism, it is useful to look at the one (century) that is just about to end.
		Tempelsman has served on several Presidential Commissions, including the President's Commission for the Observance of Human Rights, the Citizen's Advisory Board of Youth Opportunities and the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee.
	www.selu.edu /NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/tempels2.htm (342 words)

	SLU News Maurice Tempelsman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tempelsman met Congressman Morrison during his tenure in Washington and was eager to accept our invitation to present the Morrison Lecture." Morrison said he met Tempelsman on an airplane while in route to New Orleans after the Tempelsmans had left their native Belgium in the wake of Hitler's rise to power.
		Tempelsman since I left Congress, so I'm very happy that he is coming to visit and to take part in the lecture," Morrison said.
		Tempelsman is senior partner in the firm of Leon Tempelsman & Son, a company active in mining, investments and business development and minerals trading in Europe, Russia, Africa, (MORE) MORRISON LECTURE Add One Latin America, Canada and the Far East.
	www.selu.edu /NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/tempels.htm (522 words)

	SLU News Maurice Tempelsman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tempelsman's lecture to faculty, staff, students and community business leaders explored the continuing role and responsibility of the state in a free market system.
		Sending a positive message to lecture attendees, Tempelsman said, "The world has changed since the 1940's and as we approach the new century, let me add with anticipation and a measure of optimism, it is useful to look at the one (century) that is just about to end.
		Tempelsman has served on several Presidential Commissions, including the President's Commission for the Observance of Human Rights, the Citizen's Advisory Board of Youth Opportunities and the National Highway Safety Advisory Committee.
	www2.selu.edu /NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/tempels2.htm (342 words)

	Govt, gem merchant share lawyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tempelsman, a leading American diamond trader, wrote a seven-page letter to President Sam Nujoma in May offering to arrange a clandestine payment of US$50 million (N$500 million) to cover Namibia's budget deficit.
		Tempelsman is one of De Beers' sightholders, a limited number of dealers who receive specially selected diamonds from the London-based cartel to sell to their customers.
		Tempelsman flew to Namibia in May in response to reports that the dormant clauses of the Act were to come into effect.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/august/news/0277F2015C.html (887 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| whats new Alrosa bids for diamond market freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		At first, Tempelsman offered LKI’s technical expertise to Moscow Kristall, a state-owned polisher, and to the state agency in charge of diamonds at the time, the State Committee for precious Metals and Gemstones (Komdragmet).
		In December 1993, Tempelsman sent a memorandum to the then Russian Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov, proposing to arrange US Government backing for a $3.3 billion loan to the Kremlin, secured by the state stockpile of diamonds.
		Tempelsman also invited the newly established Alrosa to supply rough for a 10-year cutting and marketing venture.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/whats_new/475197.htm (1087 words)

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		Tempelsman pursuant to the Plan and 1,180,000 shares subject to an irrevocable proxy (the "Fifth Avenue Proxy") from Fifth Avenue Group, LLC, a New York limited liability company ("Fifth Avenue"), given to Maurice and Leon Tempelsman in connection with the transaction described under "Certain Transactions with Fifth Avenue Group".
		Maurice Tempelsman disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares owned directly or as custodian by Leon Tempelsman, shares as to which Leon Tempelsman has been granted a proxy by any family members, and shares that are the subject of currently exercisable options granted to Leon Tempelsman.
		Tempelsman pursuant to the Plan, 1,528,416 shares owned by LTS, of which each of Maurice and Leon Tempelsman, as the sole general partners, has sole power to vote and dispose and the 1,180,000 shares subject to the Fifth Avenue Proxy.
	www.marketwatch.com /tools/quotes/secarticle.asp?&sid=2840&symb=LKI&siteid=&guid=4691836&type=10003 (6701 words)

	Govt rejects gem dealer's loan offer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tempelsman's offer to secretly raise offshore funds was formally rejected less than two weeks ago after Government realised there was no urgent need to borrow money because of increased revenue from diamonds.
		He is a favoured client of De Beers, seeking to protect the interests of the cartel by having their diamond rights extended and Government control over the industry restricted in return for the loan.
		Tempelsman, his local representative, Namibian businessman Aaron Mushimba, and top De Beers leaders have visited Government several times in the past three months ostensibly to put pressure on Government not to implement Section 59.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/November/national/0294005F17.html (707 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
		Kommersant has learned that, in the middle of July, LKI chairman of the board Maurice Tempelsman sent Russian Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin a letter expressing his perplexity over the decision by ALROSA to reconsider the conditions of their agreement on diamond cutting.
		Tempelsman is claiming that, in spite of the claims of the ALROSA management, the ten-year-old contract is still profitable for the Russian party.
		Kommersant has information that Tempelsman was informed of those events a few days after he was in Arkhangelsk, where he was an honored guest when Kudrin opened the first line of a mine at the Lomonosov diamond field.
	www.kommersant.com /pda/doc.asp?id=599900 (703 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tempelsman worked out a new diamond contract for President Stevens - under which Tempelsman got 27 percent of the country's diamonds - setting up an independent cutting factory and De Beers bought shares in it.
		Maurice Tempelsman served the De Beers diamond cartel by promoting foreign policy decisions that favored its access to and control of African diamond fields.
		Maurice Tempelsman was an advisor to the president.
	www.webnetarts.com /socialjustice/gunsmoke.html (15085 words)

	covert action in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tempelsman was as plain as his office; 5'8", baldish, with a long sharp nose and a potbelly that bulged beneath his dark double breasted suit.
		Maurice and Lilly were from close knit Jewish immigrant community in Washington Heights on NY upper west side.
		Tempelsman made it a point to see a good deal of Jackie when she was First Lady.
	webnetarts.com /socialjustice/covact.html (13240 words)

	ch 11 diamonds Tempelsman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Maurice Tempelsman's barter deals, swapping surplus farm products for diamonds, explained how he became a millionaire but not how he became an advisor of American presidents.
		I have shown how he was valued by the Oppenheimers as their private agent and expert dealer but not how be became a valued private agent for the White House, for the Kennedies, Johnson and for Clinton....
		Then in 1995 Tempelsman traveled to Moscow with President Clinton on Air Force One after which he won financing from the governmental Ex-Im Bank for his ventures in Moscow.
	www.sparkle.plus.com /d-Ch8-agent.html (331 words)

	jackie and maurice
		They weren't married, either, because Maurice Tempelsman was still bound to his legal wife, an orthodox Jew who refused to grant him a divorce.
		There have always been people who are married in spirit but not in law, wed in their own eyes but not (at least according to the rabbis and the priests) in the eyes of God.
		But the pairing of Jacqueline Onassis and Maurice Tempelsman, and the cruel disease that ended their very private love story, struck a deep resonance with many gay people.
	www.gabrielrotello.com /jackie_and_maurice.htm (502 words)

	AEGiS-DMG: Not such a flawless gem
		He said Tempelsman cited the Bush administration's strong commitment to funding the fight against HIV/Aids, peace-making in Sudan and support for the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act.
		At the time Tempelsman's relationship with De Beers came under scrutiny because it was believed that he had helped the diamond giant tie up exclusive deals with African countries such as the former Zaire.
		Leon said he was not aware of any of the allegations against Tempelsman and "he has never been approached by the DA for funding and nor has he ever, to the best of my knowledge, made a contribution to the DA.
	www.aegis.com /news/dmg/2004/MG041106.html (709 words)

	One World Order Control in Africa
		I have been told that a major reason for some of my difficulties is the fear publishers have of a certain Maurice Tempelsman, the former companion of Jackie Onassis who in 1998 was reported to be developing a romantic relationship with Secretary of State Albright.
		Immediately after Mobutu came to power, Tempelsman became an even bigger player in the Congo - recruiting his own staff from those CIA staffers that Mobutu most favored that put him in power.
		In 1967 the State Department reported; "Tempelsman is playing an increasingly central role as GDRC (Congo's) technical advisor and mediator." But these deals and other deals done throughout the following decades with a corrupt Mobutu government left the Congolese people in absolute poverty.
	www.mormon.citymax.com /1WorldOrderAfrica.html (7127 words)

	Government Offered Secret Gem Deal (Kennedys and Democrat Donor Involved)
		Tempelsman stated that the loan would entail no borrowing, guarantees, or other financial undertakings by Government and thus, among others, could be accomplished on an entirely confidential basis.
		Maurice Tempelsman, a diamond broker who served as an agent of influence for the Angolan Communist regime, secured the companionship of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who, for a number of years served as his mistress.
		Tempelsman was able to use this relationship, in combination with the Angolan oil payoffs to the Kennedy family to secure a completely pro-Communist Angolan policy by the new administration of Bill Clinton, which arranged for U.N. sanctions and follow-up U.S. sanctions on the anti-Communist UNITA freedom fighters led by Jonas Savimbi.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/723695/posts?page=160 (6154 words)

	Tempelsman: Industry Faces 'Shakeout' - 6/1/2004 - JCK-Jewelers Circular Keystone - CA422137
		The polished-diamond sector may be heading for a substantial "shakeout," Lazare Kaplan chairman Maurice Tempelsman told attendees at the recent American Gem Society Conclave in Atlanta.
		Tempelsman also remembered his son-in-law, Lazare Kaplan vice president Bob Speisman, who was active in AGS and was killed in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001.
		Tempelsman reiterated his "family's thanks once again for the friendship and support so many of you gave."
	www.jckgroup.com /article/CA422137/jck?stt=001 (477 words)

	Not such a flawless gem : Mail & Guardian Online
		But Tempelsman, most renowned as a former companion to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, appears to be far from qualified to know what is best for Africa.
		At the time Tempelsman’s relationship with De Beers came under scrutiny because it was believed that he had helped the diamond giant tie up exclusive deals with African countries such as the former Zaire.
		Leon said he was not aware of any of the allegations against Tempelsman and “he has never been approached by the DA for funding and nor has he ever, to the best of my knowledge, made a contribution to the DA.
	www.mg.co.za /articlepage.aspx?area=/insight/insight__national&articleid=142334 (657 words)

	Newsfront - UNDP - United Nations Development Programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Top: Business has a key role in the fight against HIV/AIDS: Botswana's President Mogae (centre) with Maurice Tempelsman of the Corporate Council on Africa (left) and UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown.
		Maurice Tempelsman, chair of the Corporate Council on Africa, outlined the ways that his organization and its member companies are tackling the crisis that threatens their employees, their families, their communities and the future of many countries where they do business.
		Tempelsman also chairs the International Advisory Council of the Harvard AIDS Institute.
	www.undp.org /dpa/frontpagearchive/2001/june/26june01 (912 words)

	Board CCA
		He is also senior partner in the firm of Leon Tempelsman and Son, a company active in mining, investments and business development and minerals trading in Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, Canada and the Far East.
		Tempelsman is a Director of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; the Center for National Policy; the Business Council for International Understanding and the U.S.-Russia Business Council.
		Tempelsman also serves as a trustee of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and on Lenox Hill Hospital’s Advisory Board.
	www.africacncl.org /About_CCA/board.asp (337 words)

	All Things Pass Journalism :: ALL THINGS NEWS :: Prepared Statement of Janine Farrell Roberts :: Janine Roberts is ...
		I have been told that a major reason for some of my difficulties is the fear publishers have of a certain Maurice Tempelsman, the former companion of Jackie Onassis who in 1998 was reported to be developing a relationship with Secretary of State Albright.
		In 1967 the State Department reported; "Tempelsman is playing an increasingly central role as GDRC (Congo's) technical advisor and mediator." But these deals and other deals done throughout the following decades with a corrupt Mobutu government left the Congolese people in absolute poverty.
		Tempelsman worked out a new diamond contract for President Stevens - under which Tempelsman got 27% of the country's diamonds - setting up an independent cutting factory - and De Beers bought shares in it.
	www.allthingspass.com /journalism.php?jid=24 (1872 words)

	Presentation Roundup : Africa... : HBS Working Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		"These are momentous and unsettled times for Africa," noted Maurice Tempelsman, a financier with extensive experience on the continent, during his opening address at the Africa Business Conference.
		Tempelsman’s involvement with Africa includes his role as chairman of the Corporate Council on Africa.
		In his remarks at HBS, Tempelsman focused on the effects and responsibilities of globalization and on the tragedy of AIDS.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /pubitem.jhtml?id=1468&sid=-1&t=special_reports_afbc2k (1480 words)

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