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...Clinton has seemed distant this year, it's because he has been--traveling to Europe, Africa, South America and China. But with the exception of NATO expansion and the Northern Ireland peace accord, foreign policy gems have been elusive. The Monica Effect is easily overstated here--the sex scandal surely didn't influence Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to ignore Clinton's pleas and detonate underground nuclear tests in response to India's--but foreign leaders are sensitive to shifts in American presidential power. Despite Clinton's warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thumbs his nose...
...after his election in May 1995, on the get-tough military posture that finally led to a cease-fire after 3 1/2 years of bloody fighting by Serbian, Muslim and Croatian forces in Bosnia. While Bill Clinton and U.S. negotiator Richard Holbrooke got the credit for orchestrating the final accord, they applauded Chirac's crucial role and agreed to hold the signing ceremony in Paris...
...resolve of the British government and the majority of Catholics and Protestants to work together to face down the extremist challenge: "There's still a lot of ugliness out there," says Hillenbrand, "but the good news is that the political mechanisms have worked." The triumph of the peace accord won't bring back Richard, Mark and Jason Quinn, but it would be a fitting tribute to them...
BELGRADE: Will President Slobodan Milosevic remember that it was Richard Holbrooke who authored the 1995 NATO bombing raids that forced the Serbs to negotiate a peace accord in Bosnia? NATO certainly hopes so. The Serb leader has largely ignored the Western ultimatum to end his offensive in Kosovo, and Holbrooke flies in to Belgrade today to warn of the consequences. "Right now Milosevic, and just about everyone else, believes that NATO lacks the political will to carry out air strikes," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi...
Despite anticipation that Robinson would speakabout the recent peace accord in Ireland, shefailed to mention it. Still listeners werepleased...