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...departed Monday for a series of talks with Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic, the same group that hashed out the Dayton peace accords. "Holbrooke might succeed where others have failed because of his special credibility after Dayton," says TIME's Dean Fischer. "He also enjoys a close relationship with Milosevic." The State Department has been trying to keep Karadzic, the political leader of the Bosnian Serbs who is prevented by Dayton from running for office, from exerting his influence through loyal subordinates. Holbrooke's mission: strip Karadzic of any influence by negotiating...
...Netanyahu had clearly set out to warm up relations with the White House, he rejected unconditional peace talks with Syria and said he had no plans to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "There wasn't a meeting of the minds on these major issues," reports TIME's Dean Fischer. "It all seemed rather vague and not particularly reassuring that Israel would abide by commitments made in the past." Clinton, who is loath to provoke a confrontation with Israel before Election Day, merely said that the relationship remained "rock solid." And then a parting dig: "The tide of history cannot...
...Reported by Scott MacLeod/Dhahran, Dean Fischer and Mark Thompson/Washington and J.F.O. McAllister with Clinton
...same time, the American-educated Israeli fears denting his country's ironclad relationship with the U.S. In that respect, his timing couldn't be better. "There's concern that Clinton is not going to confront Netanyahu with some very hard questions regarding his confrontational policies," reports TIME's Dean Fischer. "These are essential questions for the future of the peace process and Clinton might not ask them in order to avoid a confrontation with Israel before the November elections." Also Monday, in a move that seemed to validate expectations that he would pursue hardline policies, Netanyahu offered former Defense Minister...
...Seeking to soften the blow, the Clinton Administration had offered Boutros-Ghali a one-year extension of his term. The Secretretary General turned it down. "The Clinton Administration feels that Boutros-Ghali has not done a good job reorganizing and streamlining the organization," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "He has proved to be an inefficient manager and the U.S. is unhappy with the handling of U.N peace missions in Somalia and Bosnia." Also at issue: congressional Republicans are unlikely to let the White House pay billions in U.N. dues without new and aggressive leadership in the U.N. Among...