Word: envoys
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...nuclear smuggling. According to a joint statement released in Germany, the two countries "emphasized the urgent necessity of putting a stop to the illegal trade in radioactive and nuclear material, regardless of its origin." The sketchy agreement is the fruit of a three-day visit to Moscow by German envoy Bernd Schmidbauer, whom an alarmed Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent over after Munich police confiscated 350 grams of plutonium traced to Russia...
When the President next focuses on his Haiti problem, he will be faced with some basic decisions. Should he set a deadline, public or private, for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to step down? Should he send a special envoy to Port-au-Prince to issue an ultimatum? Now that the U.N. has given its blessing to the use of "all necessary means" to restore Haiti's popularly elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, should Clinton ask Congress for its support -- and could he get it? Most important, Clinton must decide whether an invasion is a good...
JESSE JACKSON plans to go to Lagos, Nigeria, this week as a quasi-official U.S. envoy, but some Nigerians, including Nobel-prizewinning author Wole Soyinka, say Jackson's ties compromise his position. Moshood Abiola, the apparent winner of last year's presidential election, once donated $250,000 to a Jackson-backed campaign to build business links between Africans and black Americans. In the 1980s, Jackson borrowed an airliner from former strongman Ibrahim Babangida, the man who would not allow Abiola, now under arrest, to take office...
...needed. TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson adds the U.S. decision to send warships into the fray can also help the Coast Guard handle the refugee surge and underscore U.S. resolve. Indeed, the warships are sending a signal that the U.S. may be preparing for an invasion, but special envoy to Haiti, Bill Gray, denies it. parpar
Gray, the president of the United Negro CollegeFund and a former member of Congress fromPennsylvania, was recently named PresidentClinton's special envoy to Haiti. Gray, 52replaced Lawrence A. Pezzulo, who was forced toresign in April after efforts to return deposedPresident Jean- -Bertrand Aristide failed...