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George Bush has contributed to the problem by coddling the Deng-Li gerontocracy, thereby provoking Congress to try to replace the Administration's Mr. Nice Guy policy with its own tougher one. It has been 17 years since Bush was U.S. envoy to China, yet he still seems to suffer from the clientitis that sometimes afflicts ambassadors who represent the views of their host governments too well. Three weeks after Tiananmen, the President dispatched National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to kowtow in secret to Deng, then sent them back several months later...
Every one of the European Community ambassadors, along with American envoy Warren Zimmermann, left Belgrade to protest Serbia's continued attacks on neighboring Bosnia. But no amount of home-capital "consultations" is likely to wind down the latest act in Europe's fiercest bloodletting since World War II. Though the West's opprobrium has landed squarely on Serbia's fiercely nationalistic president, Slobodan Milosevic, he continues to proclaim that all he wants is peace...
...when his five-party coalition, clearly shaken by events, agreed to four constitutional amendments, including one that would require the Prime Minister to be an elected member of parliament. The opposition was not appeased, though Chamlong gave up his fast. At week's end King Bhumibol Adulyadej dispatched an envoy to the opposition camp to discuss ways to resolve the crisis...
Guerrilla leaders meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan, suggested a compromise. They proposed an interim council, with representatives from each of the 10 major guerrilla groups, to govern Afghanistan until elections could be held within a year. They instructed Massoud to take charge in Kabul until their arrival. The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, Benon Sevan, asked all factions to set aside their differences and cooperate, but he was less than optimistic. "What they agree to in the morning," he said, "they reject in the evening as if it were signed in invisible ink." Hekmatyar talked with Massoud for two hours by radio...
...role in the region, all launched efforts to resolve the conflict. The first cease-fire brokered by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati collapsed within a few hours. The second one lasted for several days, with both sides reporting relatively minor violations. That was long enough for U.N. special envoy Cyrus Vance to visit Stepanakert on a fact-finding mission late last month and to declare his hope that third-party mediation could help bring peace...