Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday afternoon Holbrooke had managed to win agreement from Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia to send their foreign ministers to Geneva this week to join representatives from the so-called Extended Contact Group--including the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Russia--in beginning peace talks. "These negotiations will be complicated, and they will be difficult," said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns. That, no doubt, is an understatement...
...first time. The unprecedented request could open diplomatic channels to the isolated, impoverished Communist country. "This is pretty amazing," says international affairs correspondent Marguerite Michaels. "Once North Korea lets relief aid people into the country, it allows informal inspection of what is going on there. Any kind of contact with North Korea -- for the international community and for them -- is a positive step. It's just too bad the reasons are tragic, but it's a step in the right direction." North Korea claimed that recent floods and torrential rains have affected over 5 million people and caused $15 billion...
...famous for knitting congenial souls together. And as the capacity of phone lines expands, the Net may allow us to, say, play virtual racketball with a sibling or childhood friend in a distant city. But at least in its current form, the Net brings no visual (much less tactile) contact, and so doesn't fully gratify the social machinery in our minds. More generally the Net adds to the information overload, whose psychological effects are still unknown but certainly aren't wholly benign...
...oddly, some of these affiliative impulses are frustrated by the structure of modern society at least as much as the more obviously "animal" impulses. The problem with modern life, increasingly, is less that we're "oversocialized" than that we're undersocialized--or, that too little of our "social" contact is social in the natural, intimate sense of the word...
Three senior American diplomats, together with a French peacekeeper, died in an accident on the way to Sarajevo for talks on the new U.S.-drafted peace plan for Bosnia. Robert Frasure, a top envoy to the five-nation contact group seeking Bosnian peace; Joseph Kruzel, deputy assistant secretary of defense; and National Security Council aide Nelson Drew were killed when their vehicle plunged off the road while trying to avoid an oncoming U.N. convoy...