Word: brinkmanship
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...three Presidents at the plenary session, Christopher visited the private quarters of each to chide them about actions their countries might take that could derail the talks. He warned Tudjman not to undercut Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation and told him point-blank to knock off the brinkmanship over eastern Slavonia, the hotly contested sliver of Croatia still controlled by rebel Serbs. The Secretary instructed Izetbegovic to keep his distance from the media and told Milosevic that his failure to do anything about ongoing atrocities by his proxies, the Bosnian Serbs, was unacceptable...
...Such brinkmanship is anathema to Dole, who stayed above the fray, struggling to maintain his balance between running for President for the third time and running the Senate. As Dole shuttles--sometimes daily--between Washington and New Hampshire, the juggling act has begun to take a noticeable toll. In the Senate, Dole has made several unforced errors lately, puzzling lawmakers who have long relied on his dealmaking acumen and keen sense of timing...
...violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including use of atomic weapons, will be employed to inflict maximum destruction of enemy forces," the memo says. (Eisenhower later admitted to using nuclear brinkmanship to move along U.S.-Chinese negotiations.) BTW: The memo -- one of only 30 numbered copies -- was one of 44 million WW II, Korean and Vietnam war documents recently declassified by President Clinton, one of the biggest mass declassifications in U.S. history.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
North Korea's tough-guy bargaining and brazen attempts to retract concessions already given were so unyielding that the U.S. asked for a recess and recalled its negotiators to Washington for consultations. Was the impasse just aggressive brinkmanship by the hard men of Pyongyang or the end of the diplomatic opening begun in June during Jimmy Carter's visit with North Korean strongman Kim Il Sung? The negotiators were not sure, but a State Department official was worried that "we're on the brink of a serious breach...
Pyongyang's brinkmanship threatens its talks with...