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...Boston, Thomas Menino coasted to victory; hehad been acting mayor since Raymond L. Flynn wasnamed Vatican envoy...
...State Department announced last week that special envoy to Somalia Robert Oakley, who had been basking in praise after negotiating the release of an American prisoner, is under investigation for a possible conflict of interest. The case involves an airline on whose behalf Oakley may have lobbied the State Department after he left there in 1985; while at State, Oakley had worked on issues of concern to the airline...
...bearded, 2-m Waite was a trophy: the Archbishop of Canterbury's lay envoy who helped negotiate the release of four British subjects detained by Libya...
...bearded, 6-ft. 7-in. Waite was a trophy: the Archbishop of Canterbury's lay envoy who helped negotiate the release of four British subjects detained by Libya...
...surrendered. He had fought long and hard for the principle that Bosnia should remain a single, multiethnic state. He had held out against U.N. demands that he sign on to a plan partitioning Bosnia into 10 ethnic provinces. Now, under heavy pressure from the U.N., and from U.S. special envoy Reginald Bartholomew, who promised him substantial financial aid for his new mini- state, he could resist no longer. He accepted a plan to cut his country apart along ethnic lines. "We have achieved preliminary agreement," he told his people, "on the transformation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into a union...