Word: shattuck
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LONDON--President Bill Clinton nominated former Harvard Vice President John F. T. Shattuck as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic--a role that will become more tightly defined in the next year as the six-year-old country seeks to gain admission to NATO and its government struggles to overcome instability...
...Shattuck's nomination, announced during Clinton's recent trip to China, is now contingent on Senate approval. The 100-member body will hold hearings to examine Shattuck's qualifications and then vote on whether to name him ambassador. State Department officials said the process would probably take a couple of weeks and that, until he is confirmed, he is not permitted to speak with the press...
...Shattuck served as vice president for government, community and public affairs--one of Harvard's five vice presidents--from 1984 to 1993, representing the University before the U.S. Massachusetts and Cambridge governments. Since 1993, he has been assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor--one of 19 assistant secretaries working for Madeleine K. Albright...
...Shattuck's has worked largely in areas of political and social instability. He has participated in diplomatic missions to forty countries, including the Czech Republic. His support for human rights has led him to Bosnia, Rwanda and many other wartorn countries...
...assistant secretary of state, he helped to negotiate the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia. He acted as U.S. human rights envoy to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate crimes against humanity. Shattuck was also a key player in establishing the international criminal tribunals for investigating the brutal killing in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia...