Word: visits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy scene. But she held that child on her lap throughout a party we had. She was happy to keep that child with her through the whole function. She remembered his case when she returned this year and asked for him. He had died shortly after her first visit. For a few moments after hearing this, she couldn't speak...
...woman charged with trying to save these antagonists from themselves has been in no hurry to visit the region. In 20 often fruitless trips, Albright's predecessor, Warren Christopher, became a model of what she saw as American diplomatic impotence. Unsure of herself in the byzantine world of Middle Eastern politics, she said she would travel there only if she could accomplish something substantial...
...meant, explains a senior U.S. diplomat, that "she would go to focus on the broader political initiative once we saw progress on the security issues." An Albright visit was held out to the Palestinians as a reward for shutting down the Islamists. That didn't happen, and now, as far as the Israelis are concerned, that's the whole purpose of her trip. "I think she realized that waiting for a sufficient crackdown was not going to suffice," says David Bar-Illan, Netanyahu's director of communications and policy planning. "We want progress on this issue...
...foreign officials, she pored over intelligence reports on Arafat along with Netanyahu's book, A Place Among the Nations. Once on the ground, though, Albright will rely heavily on her patented blunt talk. She won't be as bare-knuckled with these sensitive rivals as she was during her visit to the Balkans last May when she repeatedly dressed down Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian strongman Franjo Tudjman in public. But she will deliver a "reality check" to Arafat and Netanyahu on the consequences of their standoff, says her spokesman James Rubin...
...place seemed as unlikely as the coming together of the two principals. In June of this year, Princess Diana went to visit Mother Teresa in New York City's South Bronx, where the founder of the Missionaries of Charity was recuperating from an illness at one of her order's residences. Surrounding the world's two most recognizable women were the dusty tenements and gutted cars of the not yet revived area. The Saint of the Gutters was in her element, which more recently had become Diana's too. That is why the princess came to meet...