Word: czeched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...knitting, waiting for guys to call, unless the guy is the President and the date is with History. And so she was pleased last Tuesday when the phone rang and it was Clinton on the line. They talked for a while. He asked about the health of her friend Czech President Vaclav Havel, who has lung cancer. Clinton mused about the messy U.S. effort to unseat Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Then there came a pregnant pause. And then he thanked her and hung...
Albright got her first lessons in diplomacy as "the little blond girl in the national costume," the daughter of a Czech diplomat who greeted dignitaries with flowers. She got her first lesson in tyranny when the Nazis overran her country in 1938 and her family fled to London. When the family returned, her father and role model, Josef Korbel, might have become Foreign Minister had the communists not taken over in 1948. Instead, Korbel and his family sought asylum in the U.S., where he taught international relations at the University of Denver...
...women are passive, right? Women like to "talk things out." Not this woman. Madeleine Albright, as many are quick to point out, is not "soft" on foreign policy issues. She was raised the daughter of a Czech diplomat, Joseph Korbel, and was forced to flee Czechoslovakia, first from the Nazis in 1938 and then later when the Communists came to power. The result, Albright said, is that "My mindset is Munich; most of my generation's was Vietnam." In a day and age where many political leaders are pushing for a more limited use of force, Albright is a fervent...
...need to station nuclear weapons on the territory of any new members," Christopher said, adding he hoped Russia would accept expansion. Christopher offered the assurances as the 16 NATO foreign ministers set a summit meeting for next summer to expand the alliance as soon as in 1999. Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are considered locks; Romania and Slovenia could join them. But Christopher was less forceful on the problem of Slobodan Milosevic, whom he criticized cautiously: "We join in condemning the Serbian government's decision to ignore the results of the Nov. 17 elections. The people of Serbia deserve...
Holbrooke also discussed the importance of strengthening NATO by increasing its membership. He mentioned the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland as countries that might join NATO in the future...