Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Because persistence is the better part of diplomacy, American envoy Robert Gelbard will return to the Balkans Wednesday. On the agenda: a meeting with President Slobodan Milosevic, as the U.S. continues its quixotic quest to persuade suspected Serb war criminals to turn themselves over to the tender mercies of the U.N. tribunal...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Four days of Middle East shuttling by special envoy Dennis Ross has left Yasser Arafat emptyhanded - and spitting mad. All Ross was able to extract from Netanyahu was today's lifting of another travel ban. Says TIME's State Department correspondent Dean Fischer: "It's not much of a concession...
JERUSALEM: The war of words between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat continues to heat up, and US special envoy Dennis Ross is flying in to cool things down. He may have his work cut out -- a very real mini-war has already exploded along Israel's northern border...
JERUSALEM: The war of words between Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat continues to heat up, and US special envoy Dennis Ross is flying in to cool things down. He may have his work cut out -- a very real mini-war has already exploded along Israel's northern border...
...tore through a busy outdoor produce market in Jerusalem, killing 14 people, two of them believed to be Palestinian suicide bombers, and wounding 150 others. Police and soldiers immediately surrounded the market, ordering stores closed while they searched for more bombs. The attack came just one day before U.S. envoy Dennis Ross was scheduled to return to Israel in yet another effort to move peace talks forward. President Clinton announced that he would postpone the trip until an appropriate time for mourning had passed. "It seems that here, there can be either peace or quiet, but not both," notes TIME...