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...presidency, Strobe Talbott found himself at a strange juncture: in the lobby of the State Department, speaking from the pay phone he had used for years to file stories to TIME. But now he was on his own turf. Two days earlier, Clinton had nominated him to be ambassador at large and special adviser to the Secretary of State on the new independent states, a position in which he will help formulate and carry out the Administration's policy toward the former Soviet Union...
While Strobe has gone from being an editor at large to being an ambassador at large, the focus of his attention has not changed. He is one of the country's foremost experts on Russia and the other states of the former U.S.S.R. He learned Russian at Hotchkiss, majored in Russian literature at Yale, and wrote a master's thesis on that subject at Oxford. Clinton first witnessed Talbott's expertise 24 years ago when he and Strobe, both Rhodes scholars, shared a sparsely furnished row house at Oxford University. Clinton often recalled watching Strobe translate Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs...
...imposed on his sovereignty and remove the conflict from the U.N. context: within those corridors, Iraq is putting itself forward as accommodating. "In our culture, once somebody comes to you with military threats, you don't respond. If someone comes to us in a nice way, we respond," Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon insists. Would Saddam...
...established by the U.N. over southern Iraq. That provoked yet another Western ultimatum, this one joining the U.S., Britain, France and Russia. Its essence: get those missiles out by 5:30 p.m. New York time Friday (exactly 48 hours after the ultimatum was put in the hands of Iraqi Ambassador Nizar Hamdoon at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan), or else. The clear implication was that the "else" would be bombing of the missiles, their attendant radar and possibly also the runways used by Iraqi planes that have been flying into the exclusion zone. Yet again, Baghdad snorted defiance, talking of "holy...
...being more concerned with "the rich man's war" in Bosnia than with the fate of the starving in Somalia. He picked a fight with both Lord Carrington, then the European Community's chief negotiator in the Balkan crisis, and Sir David Hannay, Britain's U.N. ambassador, over the same issue, commenting that it was "maybe because I am a wog" that he had been criticized in the British press...