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...then last Monday the Serbs' shell landed in Sarajevo . Riding to work that morning, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who was running the State Department while Christopher was vacationing, heard the first radio report of the shelling. Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of Defense William Perry and General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were also on vacation; Washington was being run by deputies. While the President monitored events from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Talbott convened an 8 a.m. meeting in his office, certain that what he faced was "a test of the London rules," according...
...Talbott then placed a call to Holbrooke, who had been dispatched to the Balkans on Aug. 14 to promote a new peace initiative the Americans were pursuing. Hol brooke was in Paris preparing to embark for Belgrade to meet with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Talking on their secure line, Talbott and Holbrooke concluded that the U.S.plan would have no credibility if Washington stood by and allowed the shelling to go unpunished. Talbott then telephoned the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo requesting confirmation that the mortar attack had come from the Bosnian Serbs. By 1 p.m. Washington time the embassy had reported...
With Moscow reflexively fearful of any scheme it can't dominate -- "They're world champions at improving on nightmares," says Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott -- Washington is walking a tightrope of incoherence. Clinton swore again last week that nato will expand, but slowly, so as to avoid a "differently divided Europe." Yet that, of course, is exactly what an enlarged NATO would mean...
Stephen L. Talbott, a technical editor at O'Reilly & Associates, finally did just that. A philosopher by training, and briefly a farmer, Talbott went online 14 years ago. In the beginning, he enjoyed the free flow of information and the sense that he was exploring an uncharted frontier. But he found that as the offerings on the Net grew exponentially, so did the time he spent there. Toward the end, he was online four or five hours a day doing Internet-related work. Finally, in December, he cut himself off from the Net completely. "I immediately felt very good...
...forthcoming book The Future Does Not Compute!, Talbott argues that computer networks are inhibiting human interaction by letting people talk computer-to-computer rather than person-to-person. "Everything in society is being adapted to the Net and computerized technology," he says. "And that's a process that appears to be running quite out of control...