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...virtually ceased to function. The Administration wouldn't entertain his reorganization plan for the State Department, so Helms retaliated by refusing for months to confirm 18 ambassadors. Meanwhile, START II, the chemical-weapons convention, nine bilateral investment treaties and other pacts are also languishing. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott says Congress is "flirting with ideas that are isolationist in their potential consequence if not in their actual intent. There's a resurgence of the view that we can now afford to go it alone." This is hardly a platform from which Clinton, flush from his Bosnia success...
Adams-according-to-Zencey sees himself accurately as a kind of de-clawed cat in the matter of Lizzie Cameron, but when he meets the beautiful Miriam Talbott, a young art student, and accompanies her to Chartres, it seems that a more robust interest may develop. He persuades himself that she resembles his dead wife Clover, who committed suicide seven years before...
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott headed to Moscow to try to calm Russian anger over the NATO raids as Boris Yeltsin intensified his opposition. Yeltsin's government today branded the bombing runs "genocide" against the Serbs. Yesterday, Moscow called upon the Security Council to halt the raids. Sally Donnelly reports from Moscow that Yeltsin is playing to the home team, talking tough as Russian parliamentary election campaigns proceed. "The Russians are suffering from 'former superpower angst'," Donnelly says. "If the U.S. had become a lesser power, and Russia and Europe were ignoring the U.S. and intervening in a place...
...nato allies. But U.S. officials knew they faced a major difficulty. What about Holbrooke and his diplomatic team, which was getting ready to lobby Milosevic? If NATO launched air strikes, would Milosevic, the Serb strongman, react with anger and dismiss Holbrooke's overture? After conferring on the phone, Talbott and Christopher decided that the air campaign could cripple the diplomatic initiative, but that Washington had no choice. "Diplomacy was dead without the force," said a State Department official. By 7 p.m. Washington time, the first warplanes were launched in the direction of Bosnia...
When Holbrooke landed in Belgrade on Wednesday, the bombs had already been dropping for nine hours, and he had no idea whether Milosevic would even agree to see him. Back in Washington, Talbott and his aides were also worrying about how Holbrooke would be received. At 7:30 a.m. Washington time, they were intently watching cnn. When cameras showed Milosevic smiling and shaking hands with Holbrooke on his arrival, they slumped back in their chairs relieved. "He's smiling! Milosevic is smiling!" one exclaimed...