Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constitutional lawyers and military strategists. Those advisers held so many impromptu meetings that the living quarters swiftly began to resemble a college dorm during finals week, with diplomats gathering on the fly to thrash out issues big and small. At the center of it all was Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, who acted as a sort of diplomatic cruise director, dispatching experts to float proposals, stamp out disagreements and buttonhole delegates. "It's like a living, breathing, international diplomatic biosphere," gushed State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns...
...Dayton, Ohio, peace seems increasingly elusive. Monday night, the House of Representatives sent the Clinton Administration by passing a resolution, 315 to 103, recommending that the President not send American troops to Bosnia, a commitment demanded by the Bosnians, Croats and Serbs as a condition for peace. Special U.S envoy Richard Holbrooke, who has masterminded a temporary peace and orchestrated the Dayton meeting, was furious at the eleventh-hour interference. He told reporters yesterday that it "greviously interferes with the negotiating process of peace. Any member of the Congress who supports that kind of resolution...
...first month in office, to back a peace agreement with U.S. soldiers. The subsequent years of seemingly incessant Balkan warfare made it unlikely Clinton would ever have to redeem that pledge, but remarkable diplomatic progress in recent months--much of it stemming from the efforts of Clinton's envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke--has forced the President to confront his commitment. Last week the indefatigable Holbrooke was flitting between the Balkan capitals in an effort to, as he told TIME, "get fuller compliance" on the region's fragile cease-fire. It was his final trip before three...
...achievements so far, Clinton has not only his envoy to thank, but also the fact that events on the battlefield and at the negotiating table seem, for once, to be working hand in hand. Though Holbrooke has served to push things along, the crucial breakthrough came only after the Serbs finally provoked the Western allies on Aug. 28 by firing a shell into a Sarajevo market, killing 38 civilians and triggering NATO's air strikes. While the bombardment kept the Serbs preoccupied, the Croat-Muslim juggernaut was free to surge ahead, and by last Wednesday it stood within 30 miles...
...MOST RICHARD HOLBROOKE EXPECTED from his round of shuttle diplomacy last week was a bit of progress on designing a new shape and government for war-ravaged Bosnia and Herzegovina. Instead, when the American special envoy arrived in Belgrade, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic surprised him with a proposal to end the siege of Sarajevo in exchange for cessation of NATO's bombing campaign against Serb military installations...