Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bound to complicate relations between the U.S. and Italy,? says Burke, and will make matters more difficult for the current Italian prime minister, Massimo D?Alema, a leftist himself who nonetheless wants good relations with the U.S. ?The verdict will not lead to a closing of the Aviano air base -- it has been a key base for the various Balkan missions,? says Burke, ?but it could lead to a much closer surveillance of how the base operates...
This was nobody's idea of a romantic Valentine's Day. While millions of couples prepared for a quiet night out, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her top aides bundled onto an Air Force jet bound for France, where peace talks between Yugoslav Serbs and Albanians were stalemated. From the moment she landed, Albright began trying to punch through the impasse. She bluntly threatened the Serbs with warnings about NATO air strikes, charmed the Albanians with the promise of U.S. support and kept her fellow foreign ministers in line by reminding them of their commitment to hit the Serbs...
...trip to Moscow in January, she laid out the U.S. plan to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov during intermissions at a performance of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theater. By the end of the opera, Ivanov had agreed that Russia would not object to the threat of air strikes--giving Albright a stronger negotiating position...
...diplomatic logistics. She began each day with a 7 a.m. phone call to U.S. ambassador Christopher Hill, who was paving the way for the peace talks. That was followed by phone calls to nervous European foreign ministers, Ivanov and U.S. Congressmen--all to keep everyone from wavering on air attacks if Milosevic reneges. Albright has learned from past failures that "she has to be on top of each train to make sure they all end up in the same place," says an aide...
...Australia, in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, her boat was overcome by a monumental wave and rolled a full 360[degrees]. Its rigging and even a chunk of its deck were stripped off. Had Autissier not been belowdecks, she would have been swept overboard. The Australian air force watched over her for four days until a navy frigate arrived to pluck a weeping Autissier from the water...