Word: albright
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...said of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wanted a peace process without a conclusion. At this rate, his wish may be fulfilled. Although new premier Ehud Barak expressed optimism Tuesday that the latest Israeli-Palestinian deadlock could be broken before U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright arrives in Jerusalem Thursday, Palestinian representatives were less upbeat about prospects for resolving the dispute over prisoner releases. Last year?s Wye River accord requires Israel to release some 750 Palestinian prisoners, but Israel is refusing to free those who have engaged in political violence. That, say Palestinian representatives, defeats...
...have no choice but to accept Israel?s timetable for implementing the Wye land-for-peace accord. Negotiators from the two sides met Wednesday to finalize a timetable for completing Israeli withdrawal from the 13.1 percent of the West Bank envisaged by Wye, after Secretary of State Madeleine Albright postponed her visit to the region ? at Israel?s request. "Naturally the Palestinians were very unhappy about Albright?s decision, because they wanted her to come and get in the middle," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "While the Israelis want the U.S. to scale down its direct role...
...year-old Holbrooke will have to use his new cabinet-level position to make a case for a more consistent foreign policy focus in the Clinton administration. "That?s a substantial challenge, since the President doesn?t pay much attention to foreign policy and Secretary of State Albright has been widely criticized for failing to develop a foreign policy driven by clear, long-term goals," says Dowell. "Ultimately, Holbrooke may -- like Albright herself -- use the posting as a springboard to the Secretary of State job if Gore wins...
...fast, Madeleine. Secretary of State Albright arrived in Pristina Thursday, declaring "I hope that today in Kosovo we may say that never again will people with guns come in the night, never again will houses and villages be burned, and never again will there be massacres and mass graves." But that seemed a little premature. Only a day earlier, the village of Gracko had buried 14 Serbs massacred in a wheat field, and a low-level campaign of terror against the region?s remaining Serbs and Gypsies appears to continue unabated...
Taiwan?s loose-cannon president may be the unlikeliest of matchmakers between Washington and Beijing, yet Lee Teng-hui appears to have inadvertently healed the post-Kosovo rift. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright finally reported a thaw in relations with Beijing ? which have been on ice since the Belgrade embassy bombing ? when she met on Sunday with her Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan. Beijing announced that a previously scheduled September summit between Presidents Clinton and Jiang, which had been in jeopardy, would go ahead following a weekend during which the U.S. firmly reiterated its support for the "One China...