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...that point National Security Adviser Anthony Lake and Secretary of State Warren Christopher also favored expansion. But the Pentagon wanted no part of a larger, more costly alliance, and Strobe Talbott, Christopher's top Russia expert and now Deputy Secretary of State, feared that a rush to admit new members would anger Moscow. After months of wrangling, the advisers agreed to proceed cautiously, and Clinton announced in a Prague speech in January 1994 that the question was no longer if NATO would expand but when...
...Strobe Talbott is Deputy Secretary of State...
...Jackie Robinson [ESSAY, March 31] should be required reading--not only for multimillion-dollar utility infielders but also for every young person who aspires to be anything. It is powerfully eloquent in its simplicity and brevity, which should well serve a generation that has the attention span of a strobe light. MIKE KALLAY Honolulu
These days it's easier to spot Waldo than Ovitz. He's been out of strobe range for the paparazzi, who haven't seen him at a single Hollywood event. But his movements are tracked with interest by the entertainment community, whose denizens wonder whether the former superagent will be able to reinvent himself and return to his old glory...
...played Bob Dole in the campaign-debate rehearsals. Despite minimal foreign policy experience, the Democratic Senator was touted as the front runner for days, only to falter when Democrats showed even less enthusiasm for him than Republicans did. Mitchell may also owe his eclipse to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who went to his friend Bill just when the deal seemed done to make a strong pitch for Richard Holbrooke, the ambitious architect of the Dayton accords. Clinton didn't care that Holbrooke would break a lot of careers and egos over at Foggy Bottom, but he knew that...