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There may have been no ticker tape parade for General Wesley Clark, but that doesn?t mean he?s getting the military version of a pink slip. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that General Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war over Kosovo, will be removed from his command two months ahead of schedule early next year, linking the move to alleged tensions between Clark and the Pentagon over the conduct of the campaign. But the military?s explanation for the move may hold more water. "The fact is, Clark won the war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
ALAN GREENSPAN Gets an A++ from Gore; set to keep his post in 2000. Chalk one up for inscrutability...
Taiwan?s loose-cannon president may be the unlikeliest of matchmakers between Washington and Beijing, yet Lee Teng-hui appears to have inadvertently healed the post-Kosovo rift. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright finally reported a thaw in relations with Beijing ? which have been on ice since the Belgrade embassy bombing ? when she met on Sunday with her Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan. Beijing announced that a previously scheduled September summit between Presidents Clinton and Jiang, which had been in jeopardy, would go ahead following a weekend during which the U.S. firmly reiterated its support for the "One China...
...closer together again by giving them something to agree on," says TIME correspondent Barry Hillenbrand. "It gave Washington an opportunity to show Beijing that the U.S. is not out to get them." That?s bad news for President Lee, of course, who had hoped to use the post-Kosovo rift to drive a wedge between Washington and Beijing. But that appears to have been a miscalculation. "The U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan from any attack," says Hillenbrand, "but the last thing it wants to do is go to war with China...
Mazzoleni said he was offered the post by Athletic Director William J. Clearly Jr. '56 on July 14 and accepted the position after two days of negotiations. The official announcement came last Sunday...