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Richard Holbrooke has become Washington's favorite last-ditch diplomat. The newly nominated ambassador to the U.N. doesn't balk at hopeless missions, but he doesn't always succeed either. Three years ago, he waded into the intractable war in Bosnia and crafted a cease-fire that has lasted to this day. In 1997, as President Clinton's special envoy, he stepped into the 24-year-old struggle between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus and has so far achieved no major breakthrough. Last week he gamely turned his hand to the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, the site of a festering...
Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., Skopje. Holbrooke has made a brief stop to assure Macedonians that the U.S. will try to keep Kosovo's violence from spilling into their country. Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia who has spent considerable time with Milosevic in past negotiations, joins Holbrooke's shuttle. The envoys already conclude that the best Holbrooke might finagle from Milosevic is an agreement to pull some forces out of Kosovo, but Holbrooke must also persuade the Kosovar rebels to stop their advances. Concessions won't come easily from them either...
Past Bunting Fellows have included playwright Anna Deavere Smith and former Vermont governor and ambassador Madeleine Kunin. The fellowships were first offered...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE, nominated by PRESIDENT CLINTON last week to be U.N. ambassador, has a reputation for being a masterly strategist and head-knocking negotiator who loves publicity. He didn't get the job of Secretary of State in 1996 partly because Clinton aides feared Holbrooke would always be promoting himself at their expense. So the question naturally arose last week whether Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT was nervous that Holbrooke would try to eclipse her, especially since he would like to have her job in a Gore Administration. Albright's aides expressed shock that anyone could think such a thing...
...there won't be any tension between him and his new boss. "I'm looking forward to being part of the team," he says. But just so everyone understands what that means, Albright met with him for an hour last week to outline what she expects from her new ambassador and explain how she conducted herself when she held the job: carefully...