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...Croats. Secretary of State Warren Christopher put the best gloss he could on the importance of "bringing the full weight of American diplomacy to bear." The U.S. was for the first time taking a direct role in the negotiations. Washington will send its own envoy, veteran diplomat and current Ambassador to NATO Reginald Bartholomew, to take part in the talks. His first stop was Moscow, to persuade Russia to join the peacemaking effort. Meanwhile, the U.S. will step up humanitarian-aid shipments to Bosnia and try to tighten economic sanctions on Serbia...
Arthur Ashe was an inspiration, a goodwill ambassador of tennis and a missionary of Black American sports. The tennis world tried to set aside its grief yesterday over the death of Ashe, the better to remember him as a man who brought so much...
...choosing Thomas Pickering to be ambassador to Russia, President Clinton signaled the priority he gives to dealing with Moscow. Few diplomats are as qualified to take on a tough post: Pickering has served as ambassador to Israel and El Salvador...
...ambassador, William Harrop, had an earlier, private hearing. Rabin has expressed confidence that the U.S. will protect Israel -- but he wants to make sure. Israeli officials were on the phone intensively with Washington all week, and there was at least one personal conversation between Rabin and President Clinton. The Israelis tried to persuade the U.S. that a solution to the deportation crisis might yet be found in the appeals process set up by the court decision...
...many as 50 civilians were killed in the violence, including at least seven foreigners. Among them: French Ambassador Philippe Bernard, 61, who apparently died in a machine-gun attack on his embassy as he watched the disturbances. On Friday, Paris and Brussels dispatched a combined force of 700 troops to the region to protect and possibly evacuate their nationals...