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...bring home a peace deal, then a little righteous indignation helps you look tough back home in the district. Leaks from the delegations suggest Arafat has twice gestured toward the door, ordering his aides to pack their bags on Saturday night and trying to phone U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan early Tuesday to tell him the talks had failed. Now, Israel radio reports Barak is planning to go home Wednesday evening with no deal. But while the others are threatening to leave, President Clinton has delayed his scheduled Wednesday departure for Tokyo by 24 hours - after all, he may have...
...Kirkpatrick, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton. Madeleine Albright packed the hall at nearby Wingate University, where Helms studied for a year, for a speech (during which she gave the Senator a T shirt emblazoned with SOMEBODY AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT LOVES ME). Earlier this month, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered a commencement address at Wingate with a beaming Helms sitting in the front row waving a fan against the broiling...
...reignite a vicious civil war--defies the international community's good intentions. Many are rushing to tack another "failure" to the list of ill-fated operations from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia. The credibility of U.N. peacekeeping is under siege again and so is the wisdom of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's--and the Clinton Administration's--doctrine of humanitarian intervention...
...desperation to free its 347 peacekeeping troops held hostage in Sierra Leone may undermine the larger objective of ending that unhappy country's malaise. Even as the U.N. military commander on the ground was reportedly planning an offensive into the rebel heartland Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's envoy in Freetown urged restraint in counterattacks against the rebels for fear of endangering the hostages. Liberia's President Charles Taylor, a longtime ally and patron of the Revolutionary United Front rebels, had over the weekend secured the release of some 139 peacekeepers after being urged to intercede...
...just as it was about to take on a much larger peacekeeping challenge in the Democratic Republic of Congo. U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, leading a Security Council delegation, secured reluctant agreement last week from Congo's warring parties to accept peacekeepers. But the spectacle of Secretary-General Kofi Annan scrambling to quell what he called Sankoh's "flagrant violation" of Sierra Leone's peace accord raised doubts about U.N. efforts anywhere in Africa...