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...about $2 million every year. And the technology keeps getting more sophisticated. Last fall, for example, AT&T introduced PersonaLink Services, a package of communications software that facilitates computer, phone, fax and paging functions in hand-held personal communicators such as Sony's Magic Link and Motorola's Envoy; soon the AT&T interface will provide expanded wireless connectivity and be usable almost anywhere but underwater. In the rush to embrace virtual-office technology, some managers may not be giving enough consideration to the psychological impact of the change. Executives who have labored for years to win such corporate status...
...Vatican received a veiled threat from Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader. "His message was full of trickery," says Navarro. "He told us in effect, 'I have no problem with the trip, but what if the Muslims attempted an assassination and blamed us?' " John Paul sent a personal envoy to Karadzic to get him to repeat the same thing to his face. He did. That indirect but personal threat -- together with the dangers facing the citizens of Sarajevo who would gather for a papal Mass -- scuttled the trip. "We thought of publishing the real reason why the trip could...
...helicopter pilot who survived last Saturday's downing in North Korea, might be released this weekend, according to Rep. Bill Richardson, who's serving as a U.S. envoy to Pyongyang. Though North Korea has said only that Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall would be sent home "very soon" after being detained during a probe of the incident. Richardson, Democrat from New Mexico, said Hall was "in good shape and I think he'll be home before Christmas." Earlier Thursday, Richardson accompanied the casket carrying the body of the pilot killed in the incident, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon...
...bureaucracy, and it is responsible for its actions. So when Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali went to Sarajevo two years ago and called the Balkan conflict a "rich man's war," it is perfectly appropriate to call him a blithering idiot--the blame is his alone. Similarly, when U.N. envoy Akashi or U.N. General Rose talk like the Serbs are just another warring faction, rather than the aggressor, we can justifiably accuse them of moral cowardice...
...United Nations-brokered peace treaty, which is scheduled to be signed Sunday. That accord aims to close the book on the civil war in Angola -- the longest and bloodiest battle in Africa. "The Angolan people have suffered for 20 years," said Alioune Blondin Beye, the U.N. special envoy to Angola today. "There is going to be no more killing in Angola."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...