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In Dayton, the biggest task was to convince the Presidents they had common interests. The U.S. negotiators and their colleagues from Britain, France, Germany and Russia tended to use very forceful persuasion. Some of the Balkan officials suspected the U.S. was using sleep-deprivation as a negotiating tool. Deadlines slipped...
Looking back on his speech at the Institute of Politics (IOP) last week, we're hard-pressed to tell whether Forbes' message is driven more by stupidity or by hubris. Decrying "legalized corruption" of the tax code via special interest group money in Washington, D.C., Forbes has reached the stupefying...
South African President Nelson Mandela named fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu to head a commission that will investigate political crimes committed under apartheid. "Tutu is a very good choice for the post," reports TIME's Peter Hawthorne from Cape Town. "He has shown himself to be on the...
Netanyahu added that "we are not going to stop the legitimate and forceful debate" about the peace process. It is a debate, however, that the assassination of Rabin has turned suddenly and sharply against him. Likud and Netanyahu had for months been building up a big lead in public-opinion...
Over the course of the last six months, several events occurred that made the peace talks possible. First of all, after Muslim "safe areas" had fallen to Serbs in July, President Clinton concluded that what a diplomat calls his "muddle through" policy had been a disaster. The Administration thus became...