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...exist for a peaceful and democratic solution." That is thanks largely to four outsiders: Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former U.N. Secretary-General, who laid the ground for the intervention last fall; his successor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who engineered the Security Council's decision two weeks ago to dispatch the troops; Lord Carrington, the chief envoy in the European Community's effort to broker an overall political settlement among the pieces of the shattered Yugoslav federation; and Cyrus Vance, who has labored for five months as the personal envoy of the Secretary- General to negotiate a cessation of hostilities durable...
...women's side, Brown lived up to everyone's expectations by collecting 114 points to dispatch defending champion Cornell and take first place...
...poised to dispatch a peacekeeping force of 10,000 to Yugoslavia. An additional 1,000 blue helmets are on their way to El Salvador to monitor the end of that country's 12-year civil war. A U.N. mission is organizing a referendum for the people of the Western Sahara to determine whether they want to be independent or part of Morocco. And an advance team is preparing to take over the administration of an entire country, Cambodia, until it can elect a new government in 1993. Meanwhile, the U.N. continues to grapple with a host of crises that know...
...November 1990, during the buildup to Operation Desert Storm, James Baker tried to shore up support on the home front for the dispatch of U.S. troops half a world away. "To bring it down to the level of the average American citizen," he said, standing up to Saddam Hussein "means jobs." Then, to make sure everyone understood, he said it again, "If you want to sum it up in one word, it's jobs...
...jeremiad. "Whew! What a free market of ideas. And I sure respect the way he gets on that freight train of passion," said Sam Barone, executive director of Ohio's Democratic Party organization, after a Brown speech in Chicago. "But I'll tell you this, if he should dispatch a bunch of those pony- tailed Californians with earrings into Ohio or Indiana as volunteers, then he can just forget...