Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good reason to be. Milosevic whisked Holbrooke to the presidential palace in Belgrade, where he handed the American envoy a document signed by top Bosnian Serb leaders, including political leader Radovan Karadzic, military commander Ratko Mladic and Patri arch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church. "Look," said Milosevic, in what for him must have been a moment of supreme satisfaction. "I now speak for Pale." Translation: the Serbian President did what he had boasted he could do-he had delivered the Bosnian Serbs to the negotiating table. Moreover, he could control the Serb side of the negotiations. According...
Three senior American diplomats, together with a French peacekeeper, died in an accident on the way to Sarajevo for talks on the new U.S.-drafted peace plan for Bosnia. Robert Frasure, a top envoy to the five-nation contact group seeking Bosnian peace; Joseph Kruzel, deputy assistant secretary of defense; and National Security Council aide Nelson Drew were killed when their vehicle plunged off the road while trying to avoid an oncoming U.N. convoy...
...lone pilot survived and was in their custody, an assertion the U.S. was unable to confirm. At the same time, the Bosnian Serbs -- under pressure from their erstwhile patron, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic -- released 121 of the more than 370 U.N. peacekeepers they had been holding hostage. U.S. envoy Robert Frasure met with Milosevic to discuss possibly suspending economic sanctions against Serbia in return for the release of the other hostages and Serbian recognition of Bosnia's borders. NATO and European Union defense ministers, meanwhile, met in Paris and agreed to create a combat force, numbering...
...refreshing breath of foppery comes from Lord Brounker (Mike Efron). An envoy to the King, he brings both good and bad news to Sir John. Fabulously beribboned in pink, Brounker is a starlet who wags his opulence in the face of the sick and the desperate. Literally a pink triangle, his effeminate manner and costuming furnish a witty reminder of the politics of our own age. Efron brings just the right delicate edge to make his performance stand...
...right to such weapons. The major powers want the treaty to be made permanent, but Thompson says smaller countries "think that freezes the advantage." In New York today, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called for disarmament as well as an extension of the treaty. While U.S. envoy Tom Graham predicted that two-thirds of the 182 countries present will vote with the U.S. at the end of the three-week showdown, Thompson notes that State Department officials privately say the vote is in jeopardy...