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...good people reluctant to serve in government? All the civics student needs to know can be found in the saga of the nomination of Sam Brown. In September 1993, Bill Clinton asked the former head of ACTION, the agency that oversees the Peace Corps, to be U.S. ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), a 52-nation organization in Vienna that mediates conflicts in the former Soviet republics and promotes human rights. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on Nov. 18 and approved the nomination, 11 to 9, on March 22. Brown, nonetheless...
PUBLIC EYE: The Man Who Would Be Ambassador...
...months, U.S. Ambassador William Swing had been hearing reports of how smugglers operating across Lake Saumatre from the Dominican Republic were flouting the United Nations fuel embargo against Haiti. Last Wednesday morning, Swing finally saw for himself. About an hour's drive from his elegant residence above Port-au-Prince, he stepped out of his armored car and trained his binoculars on a flotilla of wooden boats laden with large blue drums of petroleum. "It looks like a staging area for some of the contraband coming across," said the ambassador, an observation that has long been obvious to Haitians...
...satisfy U.S. demands for "significant progress" in China's human-rights record. His reaction was one of a number of clues that President Clinton has decided against cracking down hard on China by cutting back trade. Another sign was a secret visit to Beijing by a special envoy, former Ambassador to Japan Michael Armacost; his job reportedly was to coax the Chinese leaders into other concessions that the White House could seize on to justify that decision...
...purge the Haitian military, prompted Secretary of Defense William Perry to comment, "I didn't recognize it as any plan we're working on." The same report drew from Secretary of State Warren Christopher a less guarded response: "That's the kind of force that's being discussed." U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright weighed in with an ambiguous "We are not ruling anything...