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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Madeleine Albright, set to become the nation's first woman Secretary of State, began confirmation hearings Wednesday before a friendly Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's been a real love-fest" reports TIME diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer after the first day of hearings. Having served four years as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and proven herself an expert on European affairs, Albright is well known to the committee, but today's hearing provided senators with a chance to explore Albright's positions issue by issue. As the woman who delivered the head of former U.N. Secretary...
...WASHINGTON, D.C.: "Christopher's legacy is one of unfinished business," notes TIME's Dean Fischer. "He devoted much time and energy to negotiating peace in the Middle East, which remains undone. Bosnia is still a question mark, although Christopher can be credited with convincing the President to commit troops. The Administration's China policy is still a work in progress, but we can credit Christopher with injecting realism into U.S. policy with respect to China, although there is still a problem balancing human rights concerns with trade issues. As NATO expansion continues, Christopher's successor will need to execute some...
...sent aloft in 1972, when Richard Nixon was in the White House, Bobby Fischer was the world's chess champion, and the IBM 360 mainframe still dominated the computer industry. It was designed to have a useful life of three years, at most. Yet today, after a quarter-century, when Fischer has disappeared from the chess scene and the IBM 360 is merely a nostalgia item on display at Boston's Computer Museum, the doughty little spacecraft Pioneer 10 is still plugging along...
...Reported by Dean Fischer, J.F.O. McAllister and Mark Thompson/Washington and Scott MacLeod/Amman
...Prime Minister has firmly rejected the idea, but still seeks a path toward peace. "Like us, the United States wants the talks resumed," Netanyahu said in Washington. "I don't know if Syria wants it. We are looking for a solution in words." TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer notes that from the U.S. point of view, Netanyahu's problems are of his own making: "The Israelis have said everything is negotiable, but they are unwilling to pick up negotiations where the previous government left off. Netanyahu wants to go back to square one. The Syrians are saying, No thanks...