Word: bosnias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year the U.S. government did not happen. The Republican revolution did not happen. The Whitewater scandal did not bring the President down. Fifteen U.S. Senators did not run for re-election. Colin Powell did not run for the presidency. America did not get involved in a larger war in Bosnia and did not intervene in Burundi, Liberia, Zaire or Sudan. No fuss arose about the illegal fund-raising practices of the Democrats. No fury erupted when it was revealed that Swiss bankers kept Nazi loot stolen from Holocaust victims...
...expert on U.N. finances, since 1993 Annan has been Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping. The job put him in charge of 17 military operations and as many as 80,000 multinational troops in locales like Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. "He managed to be an honest broker among the U.S. and the other major powers involved in Bosnia, even when they disagreed," says a U.S. official. As chief peacekeeper, Annan created a professional military-planning group credited with introducing cost efficiency to the U.N.'s far-flung troop deployments...
...woman, or because Hillary likes her, or because women's groups keep reminding him that they did much to get him re-elected. So it was left to her friends and admirers to revel in the idea of a Secretary of State who sorted out the future of Bosnia while cuddling a grandchild on her lap, who knits and cooks and wears red suits and goes antiquing with Barbra Streisand, who keeps a miniature broom in her office sent by a critic who called her a witch for supporting sanctions on Saddam Hussein, who passed out bags of cookies decorated...
...muscular instincts and ability to talk like the popular professor she once was. When he was trying to make up his mind whom to choose, he kept recalling a conversation with Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, who lobbied hard for Albright. A lot of diplomats may grasp the complexities of Bosnia, she told the President, but only Albright could explain why we were there in a way that Mikulski's late mother the grocer could understand...
...need not be masculinized in order to exhibit qualities of assertion and aggressiveness. No, we are not sending off Madeleine Albright to challenge Saddam Hussein to a wrestling match, but we are asking her to help us decide at what times we should wrestle. How tough to be in Bosnia? How to lessen the never-ending tensions of the Middle East? How to confront the emergence of China? How often should the U.S. come to the rescue of struggling young democracies? We are handing over a significant portion of power to a woman--asking her to provide insight and judgment...