Word: albright
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...Christopher Hill -- who was bearing news that the ethnic Albanian rebels appeared ready to deal -- Milosevic released a statement saying, "Our negative stand about the presence of foreign troops is not only the attitude of the leadership, but also of all citizens in our country." Bluster? Definitely. Bluff? Madeleine Albright certainly hopes so -- because she's made the U.S. position very clear, and did so again earlier Tuesday: Serbs kill the deal, bombs. And "no NATO force," she said, "is a deal-breaker from our perspective...
...President kept asking nervously in a morning meeting. Turning to White House staff members, he told them to pull together a plan. The team spent a weekend crashing a strategy, only to be shut out again when Rubin arrived back in town. An aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright regularly worked the phones during last summer's Russian collapse, insisting that reporters were missing the story--Albright's involvement in economic policy. No one spent an ounce of ink on it. But other Administration officials say they are comfortable with the power balance. Says Gene Sperling, head...
...Serb president Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday made matters more difficult with the thumb-in-your-eye demand that the Albanians publicly renounce their dream of independence. Madeleine Albright again brandished the threat of air strikes if the Serbs torpedo the talks. That threat, plus the return of the British and French foreign ministers to prod the talks along, confirms that progress is slow. But NATO is hoping to move things along with its combination of bomb threats and buffets...
...Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Pristina, Mark Thompson/Washington and Douglas Waller with Albright...
...wasn't well enough to greet MADELEINE ALBRIGHT. And he hasn't made it to his Kremlin office once this year. But what really got BORIS YELTSIN upset was missing the wedding of his eldest grandchild. KATYA OKULOVA, ITAR-TASS was pleased to report, married at the tender age of 19. The groom, we are cryptically told, is a "fellow classmate." (Katya is a history major at Moscow State, although she has been on "academic leave.") Kremlin handlers are willing to discuss the particulars of the President's bleeding ulcer, but Katya's nuptials--which, given her grandpa's state...