Word: oslo
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Yitzhak Rabin risked - and lost - his life for the Oslo Accord, and President Clinton hopes his memory will inspire Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to take the giant steps required to complete the peace process. But it may take more than even Rabin's inspirational example, commemorated by Arafat, Barak and Clinton in a ceremony in the Norwegian capital Tuesday, to spur progress in the troubled march to peace. After all, even at the height of the optimism and trust forged between Rabin and Arafat, the "final status" issues currently on the table were considered too contentious to tackle...
...Nobel Peace Prize committee assembles in Oslo this week. While it's deliberating, Notebook asked Barnett Rubin, director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, to handicap some hopefuls...
...little over the top for an accord that amounts to no more than an undertaking to implement the agreement reached a year ago at Wye ? never mind that Wye itself, despite its dramatic eleventh-hour White House signing ceremony, was simply an agreement to implement agreements previously reached at Oslo. Oh well, if you can?t have a true peace agreement, at least you can keep the two sides busy in a peace process...
...native of Plano, Texas, Armstrong had already chalked up an impressive record before he was sidelined. In Oslo in 1993, he became the second youngest world road-racing champion; that same year, and again in 1995, he won a leg of the Tour; in April 1996 he won Belgium's Fleche Wallonne race. Then came the terrible news...
...daily with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on this issue since January, when she flew to Moscow to tell him--during an intermission of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theater--that NATO was issuing a bombing threat. Four weeks ago, they met in a bare, beige room at the Oslo airport, where Ivanov plucked a silk flower from the table arrangement to give her. He also pulled from his breast pocket a paper with 10 "principles" for a solution. Albright noticed some coincided with NATO's. She proposed that they get out pencils and mark the ones they could agree...