1.   Keep your rough diamonds, your kaleidoscope, your mission, your connectors and your propaganda peddler-routing revolution.

2.   His father had been something of a rough diamond, barely literate and excelling in drinking, whoring, gaming, fishing and fighting.

3.   And he personally offered to sell me rough diamonds.

4.   And, as De Beers influence has waned, the Angolan government has begun diverting its rough diamond shipments to Israel from Antwerp.

5.   Axworthy also said Canada would sponsor a conference to study pinpointing more accurately the source of rough diamonds and their paths to market.

6.   A weighted polypropylene rope that stretches out about two and half miles is dropped to the bottom in a rough diamond shape.

7.   But experts can tell the origin of a packet of rough diamonds, even if individual stones or mixed parcels are harder to identify.

8.   Meanwhile a group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is focusing on the thin surface coatings of rough diamonds.

9.   Rough diamonds are supposed to be shipped in sealed packages certified by authorities in exporting nations.