Late one night, after we finished our talks, representatives of the two ministries were literally screaming their arguments at each other in the lobby of the Hotel Okura. Senator Al D’Amato, who had spent much of the last several years attacking Hillary and her staff in his committee hearings. On October 13, NATO had threatened to attack Serbia within four days unless the UN resolutions were observed. On the twenty-sixth, I met with Helmut Kohl, who deplored what was happening and who, like me, had favored lifting the arms embargo.
After the speech, I worked the crowd, shaking hands with supporters and trying to convince the dissenters. That’s how Jesse Jackson saw it, too. Air Force markings, the other, in which I was riding, painted plain white. In the end, we voted to take Russia in as a full member of the new G-8, but to allow the finance ministers of the other seven nations to continue to meet on appropriate matters.
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