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...were well on our way to drafting a proposal calling for continued U.S. involvement in the post-Cold War world when someone brought up the United Nations. Suddenly, we went from discussing the practicalities of U.S. troop commitment to arguing over whether the United States should belong...
JERUSALEM: Internal political considerations prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from beginning the New Year with an agreement in place on Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron. Netanyahu was forced to postpone his New Year?s Eve summit with Arafat in order to guide his 1997 budget through the Israeli Knesset as crucial close votes coincided with the peace talks. U.S. mediator Dennis Ross said that while the two sides were very close on the Hebron agreement, ?We are not there yet.? While peace is vital to Israel, Netanyahu confronted a domestic challenge that kept...
JERUSALEM: Internal political considerations prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from beginning the New Year with an agreement in place on Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron. Netanyahu was forced to postpone his New Year?s Eve summit with Arafat in order to guide his 1997 budget through the Israeli Knesset as crucial close votes coincided with the peace talks. U.S. mediator Dennis Ross said that while the two sides were very close on the Hebron agreement, ?We are not there yet.? While peace is vital to Israel, Netanyahu confronted a domestic challenge that kept...
...expert on U.N. finances, since 1993 Annan has been Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping. The job put him in charge of 17 military operations and as many as 80,000 multinational troops in locales like Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. "He managed to be an honest broker among the U.S. and the other major powers involved in Bosnia, even when they disagreed," says a U.S. official. As chief peacekeeper, Annan created a professional military-planning group credited with introducing cost efficiency to the U.N.'s far-flung troop deployments...
...music in invisible ink and with photographs hidden in her clothes. In Belgium a group of women known as Dames Blanches seemed to be innocently knitting day after day as they sat at their windows, yet all the while they were counting the cars of passing Nazi troop trains...