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...setting was chosen, though, precisely to create such frustration, and out of it has come progress. Indeed, by week's end things had moved so far forward that all three Balkan Presidents were almost ready to take the step of actually signing a draft agreement. Almost. "We are inches away," said a frustrated U.S. official, just before the three Presidents, who had been repeatedly coaxed "to the edge''of the table, once again backed off. Their skittishness did not stem only from a concern that they may get a better deal; the "Rabin effect," as Dayton insiders call it, took...
...meeting, Lewis presented the coordinators with a draft of the agreement...
...case, Holbrooke intends to drive the participants at the same breakneck pace he has been forcing since mid-August. Over the weekend he was polishing a full draft of a proposed peace treaty that Christopher expects to put before the three Presidents as soon as talks begin. Holbrooke's tempo has some critics, notably in the French Foreign Ministry. They contend it results in the papering over of contentious details that may crop up later to wreck a seeming agreement. Holbrooke's answer is that stopping to iron out all the details is a sure formula for having negotiations...
...years, the 16th draft pick in the 1985 draft has caught 148 touchdown passes (an NFL career record), won three Super Bowls, made 877 career receptions--and all he really could think about was an incomplete pass in Sunday's loss. That is Jerry Rice at his finest...
There's one more thing that makes the Maddux-Belle confrontation enticing. Belle is still angry that the Braves passed him over in the 1987 draft because the team's general manager threatened to fire anyone who drafted him. The G.M. at the time was Cox, who eventually gave up his front-office duties to manage the Braves to World Series appearances--and losses--in '91 and '92. Says Cox: "Forget all that stuff about us being the Buffalo Bills of baseball. Forget all the Native American stuff. This Series is going to be about good old-fashioned hardball...