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...Etienne Tshisekedi, a human-rights activist and a bitter personal enemy of the President's. Last week each accused the other of treason as Mobutu tried to dismiss Tshisekedi, who adamantly refuses to step down. "The killings in recent weeks have only made Mobutu stronger," cautions a senior Western diplomat, who notes that the dictator's demise has often been forecast before. "He clearly calculates that the physical elimination of a few of his enemies will have a deterrent effect on the rest of the population...
Clinton and Christopher had said that the peace plan marketed by Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen was too favorable to the Serb aggressors and militarily unenforceable. Yet they named an envoy -- veteran diplomat Reginald Bartholomew -- to establish an American presence at the ongoing Vance-Owen talks. Clinton also promised to use American troops to enforce whatever Bosnian settlement emerges from the negotiations, hoping this pledge will strengthen the hand of the Muslim-led Bosnian government. But one skeptical U.S. official called the plan "smoke and mirrors," doubting that the Serbs will take nonmilitary threats seriously or that Washington will ever...
...Muslims, Serbs and Croats. Secretary of State Warren Christopher put the best gloss he could on the importance of "bringing the full weight of American diplomacy to bear." The U.S. was for the first time taking a direct role in the negotiations. Washington will send its own envoy, veteran diplomat and current Ambassador to NATO Reginald Bartholomew, to take part in the talks. His first stop was Moscow, to persuade Russia to join the peacemaking effort. Meanwhile, the U.S. will step up humanitarian-aid shipments to Bosnia and try to tighten economic sanctions on Serbia...
...world of diplomacy, where perception and precise language are everything, the incident pointed up Clinton's unsure handling of foreign affairs. British officials were particularly leery of one Clinton remark: "I always tell everybody, I'm a Baptist; I believe in deathbed conversions." Said a senior British diplomat: "We don't need a Southern Baptist attitude, as we had with Jimmy Carter. We need pragmatism...
...most was what he has failed to achieve all along: to provoke the Iraqi people into taking matters into their own hands. This raid alone had little chance of accomplishing that. But "if Saddam goes on playing the same game, he can expect the same response," says a British diplomat. "We hope some of those around him will see that the only sensible alternative...