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During negotiations, Galbraith says he faced some of the toughest personalities in history, including the "Franco-like" Croatian president, Farfranjo Tudjman...
...know I spent more time with Tudjman than everyone else combined," Galbraith says. "He's a very rigid personality with a sense of his own place. He was convinced that Bosnia should not exist as a country. He showed extreme racism against Bosnian Muslims...
...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...
...Albright wasn't intimidating enough to force Tudjman or Milosevic to surrender war criminals or allow hundreds of thousands of refugees to return to their homes. Helms is still willing to make trouble for the Administration, announcing last week that he would block Massachusetts Governor William Weld's nomination to be ambassador to Mexico...
...than reinforce the Balkan status quo. The West has counted on Croatia for stability in the region, so it's not going to blame it now for an internal lack of democracy and human rights." With more than 90 percent of the total count in, Croatiannationalist strongman President Franjo Tudjman has won an easy victory, sidestepping Western media reports that incomplete voter lists had allowed only 10 percent of the country's thousands of ethnic Serbs to have a voice at the polls. Buoyed by recent U.S. approval of a $13 million loan, Tudjman took a tough line toward...