Word: albright
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Washington was also stuck in internal wrangling. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wanted the White House to push harder for NATO military action, but Defense Secretary William Cohen balked, fearing air strikes would only embolden the Kosovo Liberation Army, then at the peak of its strength and demanding an independent state, which Washington opposed. Clinton was too distracted to knock bureaucratic heads or force the allies to carry out their threat. The indecision "proved to be a disaster," says a U.S. diplomat. "Milosevic took the measure of the West and decided he could take advantage...
When Czech president Vaclav Havel was in Washington last month, he told Madeleine Albright that he had a novel idea: When his current term ends, she should become president of the Czech Republic. As secretary of state, Albright is nominally in line for the U.S. presidency, but as a foreign-born citizen, she cannot hold the office. Not so in the Czech Republic, where Albright was born. The idea of Albright's succeeding Havel, who has been found to have lung cancer, was being touted by Havel's friends in a Czech magazine called The New Presence...
...then to return to Washington in October and talk some more. The White House Monday was clearly hoping to revive the moribund peace process and give President Clinton a foreign policy achievement to crow about. But the only concrete step to come out of the initiative was that Madeleine Albright (to her thinly veiled irritation) will fly the Middle East with Dennis Ross on October 6 to nudge talks along before Arafat and Netanyahu return to Washington...
...Gulf War. Since then he has been head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, which succeeded the KGB. As Foreign Minister, he has done his best to prevent the expansion of NATO, lift the sanctions on Iraq and forestall Western military action against Serbia. Even so, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has gone out of her way to maintain a good working relationship with him. Last July at a banquet in Manila, the two sang a parody of the duet from West Side Story, with Albright warbling, "The most beautiful song I ever heard, Yevgeni, Yevgeni, Yevgeni...
...credibility of Washington's fight against the forces of evil. Scott Ritter, a former Marine who headed the United Nation's inspection team in Iraq, resigned. He was frustrated that while the U.S. talked tough about opening Iraq's weapons facilities to inspectors, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright secretly pressured the U.N. to back off intrusive checks that might spark another confrontation with Iraq. The two-faced policy created "the illusion of arms control," Ritter complained in his resignation letter. Albright bristled at charges that she was being soft on Saddam Hussein: "It is not for nothing that I have...