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Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State are an odd couple. The President has never met a crowd he believed impervious to his smarts and charm; he is never more alive than in front of the cameras as the Oprah of health care and unemployment. Warren Christopher, a natural introvert old enough to be Clinton's father, glides into a room as silently as a monk. His gravelly monotone and wrinkled poker face give nothing away, his mobile eyes are friendly but curiously unreadable. His Establishment-lawyer virtues come not from the era of MTV but from the days...
...Warren Christopher, SEC'Y OF STATE...
...option until after the Bosnians voted on the U.N.-sponsored peace plan. "That's absurd," said Danish Foreign Minister Niels Petersen angrily. "The question of tying anything in the European Community's position to the referendum ((didn't even come up in)) our discussions" with Secretary of State Warren Christopher. "The real problem," says a White House aide, "is that Christopher couldn't sell the Europeans on our position." "Nonsense," says a State Department official. "Only the President could close the sale, and he refused. He could have gotten the Euros on board. He could have said, 'We're going...
...WARREN CHRISTOPHER...
...timed and poorly managed pursuit of a common strategy can disarm the threat of force as a weapon capable of causing the enemy to retreat. "Which is what some of us have come to think of Chris' mission to Europe," says an Administration official about Secretary of State Warren Christopher's recent Continental tour. Coupled with the President's insistence on a concerted response and the allies' resistance to his options menu, "it's not surprising that the Bosnian Serbs concluded we were bluffing and so voted against the Athens agreement," says this official. "We either should have...