Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neighbors with refugees. One appeal came from Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who called Clinton to urge the U.S. to intervene. That helped trigger a Feb. 18 White House session in which Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin proposed Mondale, a former ambassador to Japan, as Clinton's envoy. Participants agreed that Mondale had the clout to pressure Suharto while reassuring him that the U.S. remains his friend...
...President Clinton?s special envoy, Walter Mondale, appears to have had little impact. His talks with Suharto Tuesday were aimed at dissuading him from playing chicken with the International Monetary Fund. ?The talks were friendly enough, but Suharto has made no concrete commitments,? says Van Voorst. While he awaits the second installment of his $40 billion bailout, Suharto did promise to implement the IMF program. But he also questioned its efficacy and vowed to press ahead with plans to peg his currency to the dollar -- against the will of the IMF and Washington...
Gulf Tour '98 The U.S. and Iraq play the envoy game in the battle for hearts and minds. Special: Back to the Brink...
WASHINGTON: Following Tuesday?s nothing-to-report meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu, President Clinton meets Thursday with Yasser Arafat. The pattern is familiar, says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad: ?After Thursday, they?ll send a U.S. envoy to the region to get talks restarted. Both sides will repeat the same complaints they presented to Clinton. The envoy will leave, the situation will deteriorate and then, at some point, they?ll be back in the White House...
...sheep, a rooster and a duck--take to the sky in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon. On Nov. 21, Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes drift over Paris in a Montgolfier, achieving the first manned free flight (2). Asked what good are balloons, U.S. envoy Ben Franklin replies, "What good is a newborn baby?" The English Channel is crossed in 1785, and ballooning soon becomes the stuff of daredevils (3). But in 1794 the world's first air force is born: warring France uses tethered balloons to observe and direct troops, a tactic later employed...