Globalization and Diplomacy: A Practitioner's Perspective

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Globalization and Diplomacy: A Practitioner's Perspective by Strobe Talbott It was the early morning of Monday, October 4, 1993, and there was a new kind of trouble brewing in Moscow. Tanks had surrounded the White House, the giant parliament building on the banks of the Moscow River, where deputies of the Supreme Soviet, some of them heavily armed, were holed up in defiance of President Boris Yeltsin's order to dissolve the legislature and submit to new elections. Just hours earlier, at the urging of the insurgents inside the White House, armed mobs had attacked the Moscow mayor's office and the city's main television station. I had spent the night camped on the couch in my office on the seventh floor of the State Department. At 3:00 A.M., I went down the corridor to the department's Operations Center, our communications hub, where we had established a round-the-clock task force to monitor the crisis that was coming to a head. Using one of the phone banks in the OpsCenter, I called Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Mamedov, who was in his own office in the ministry's Stalin-gothic skyscraper on Smolensk Square, less than a mile from the besieged parliament. We had been in frequent touch since the showdown began 24 hours earlier. Suddenly, in the midst of our conversation, we both fell silent. After STROBE TALBOTT is the U.S. deputy secretary of state. FALL 1997 69
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