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...have someone from the West with me, I have a better chance of getting this done," he said. "Mother Boss," as the Russian calls Albright, immediately thought of the solid, no-nonsense Ahtisaari. Not only did he have years of experience in international negotiation and the cachet of Finland's assuming the presidency of the European Union, but Washington was sure he would not sell out the alliance's conditions...
...clear how valuable the two freshmen were to the Crimson when they left the squad briefly in march to join their respective national teams at the World Championships in Finland--where Botterill and the Canadians avenged the loss at Nagano by defeating Ruggiero and the United States...
...Without Botterill, 7th-place Princeton took Harvard to overtime before Ruggiero bailed out the Crimson with the game-winning goal in the extra period. After Ruggiero joined Botterill in Finland, Harvard barely survived eighth-place Cornell with a 3-2 victory in the ECAC Tournament quarterfinal...
...with domestically -- of how much President Clinton will be able to compromise while still making the result appear to be a victory." The three key players in the diplomatic endgame -- Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott and European Union mediator President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland -- met in Bonn Tuesday to consider new Russian peace proposals, after a night of heavy air raids in which Belgrade claims NATO bombs killed 26 civilians in two separate incidents...
With ground troops off the table as an option, NATO's Kosovo exit strategy now rests squarely on the diplomatic corps -- and the growing involvement of Finland's president suggests that a breakthrough on that front may be on the horizon. President Martti Ahtisaari met for two days with Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in Helsinki before Chernomyrdin left for Belgrade Wednesday and Talbott departed for NATO headquarters. Ahtisaari, an accomplished peacemaker with extensive European and U.N. credentials, has been tapped by European NATO members to represent them as a mediator...