Word: carringtons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chair of the European Community's peace conference on Yugoslavia, Lord Carrington, was optimistic that the latest U.N.-mediated truce would last in secessionist Croatia after the failure of 14 previous cease-fires...
Jacques Delors, the E.C. commission President, lamented that "the E.C. is a little like a child confronted with an adult crisis." At the same time, Lord Carrington, chairman of the E.C.-sponsored Yugoslav peace conference, voiced the widespread conviction that little more than jawboning could work. After last week's cease-fire began to unravel, the former British Foreign Secretary noted wearily, "In the end, the only thing that stops violence is when the people involved want to stop...
Serbs and Croatians plainly were not in the mood to stop it. At the meeting Carrington conducted in Igalo, a seaside resort in the small Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, Milosevic and Tudjman glared at each other fiercely and refused to exchange a word. The agreement they signed never had a chance. When he returned to Zagreb, Tudjman fired his defense minister, Luka Bebic, for carrying out the cease-fire's terms prematurely -- and the belligerents leaped at each other again...
...Carrington successfully concluded negotiations for the creation of a democratic Zimbabwe...
That discussion goes on at colleges everywhere. "It seems like date and acquaintance rape is the rule rather than the exception on campuses today," says Frank Carrington, a consultant for Security on Campus, a nonprofit group based in Gulph Mills, Pa. "And the way the universities treat it is to cover up and protect their image while a tremendous outrage is building...