Word: sentiments
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Despite the success of the peace talks and the elation of diplomats who had worked sixteen and eighteen hour days for the last three weeks, Christopher predicted that an "immense effort" will be required to implement the accord. That sentiment was echoed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who spearheaded the team which brought the parties to the negotiating table and who had not spoken publicly since the negotiations began on November 1. "We started fourteen weeks ago. It seemed like 14 years ago," said Holbrooke. The veteran diplomat admitted that the enmities among the parties were "still...
...Right now sentiment on Capitol Hill is pretty strong against U.S. troop involvement in the Balkans, and not just among Republicans," says TIME's Congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. The House has already passed two non-binding resolutions objecting to the President's plan to send 20,000 U.S. soldiers to Bosnia to help enforce the peace. Clinton began his own lobbying effort last week with a long letter to Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Today, in announcing the accord, the President argued that the American troop commitment was "essential." "Without us," he said, "the hard-won peace would...
...hardly oblivious. "Barely adequate" is their candid assessment of Dole on the stump. But this time they have reason to gloat. Dole has stayed "on message." Among the Doleites, their man is "on message" when he avoids describing the government as "doing a lot of good things," a sentiment the campaign would just as soon have him ditch. "Stayed on message," Dole says afterward, before repeating a pet peeve: "Every time I do that reconnect-the-government-to-values stuff, I feel like a plumber...
...that he can sell to Israeli voters in elections that must be held no later than next November. Peres could call the election as early as February, and some supporters want him to do so to take advantage of the postassassination surge in the polls. But knowing that voter sentiment can reverse itself in Israel almost overnight, the acting Prime Minister seems to prefer giving himself the full year to negotiate a peace that will win at the polls...
...Crimson reported that "the sentiment of Harvard men was well nigh universal that no other course was open to them without a sacrifice of self-respect...