Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir (55 page)

3. July 1991. Tirana, Albania. With Mother Teresa and the pilot of a C-141 carrying aid supplies. Mother Teresa expressed concern that the aircraft was “too big to fly.”

4. October 1991. U.S. Embassy Tirana, Albania. Raising the flag with Mrs. Agani. Her husband had worked for the U.S. Embassy in 1946 and was later shot by the communist authorities after U.S. diplomats departed.

5. August 1995. President Clinton conducting a meeting in the chapel at Fort Myers (Arlington, Virginia) immediately after a memorial service for Bob Frasure, Joe Kruzel, and Nelson Drew, our three colleagues killed on Mount Igman Road near Sarajevo. (
I am at left in front of the bookcase.
)

6. September 1995. With Ambassador Dick Holbrooke en route to the Balkans on the peace shuttle. A mentor and a tormentor.

7. November 12, 1995. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Visiting with Slobodan Milosevic in his suite in the Visiting Officers Quarters.

8. November 20, 1995. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Discussing the map of Bosnia.
From left
: myself, Dick Holbrooke, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, President Izetbegovic, and Slobodan Milosevic.

9. 1997. Macedonia. Up along Macedonia’s border with Serbia visiting U.S. troops who were patrolling under a UN command.

10. March 25, 1999. Skopje. Embassy Skopje attacked by thousands of demonstrators on the first day of the Kosovo War. They never got through the door despite using our flagpole as a battering ram.

11. April 1999. Skopje. With Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott (
at right
) visiting President Gligorov (
shaking my hand
) and Macedonian defense minister Handziski (
in profile at rear of photo
). The smiles belied tough discussions about Macedonia’s willingness to take in a quarter million Kosovo refugees.

12. May 1999. Skopje. First Lady Hillary Clinton conducting an NGO meeting in the residence living room. That day in the dining room she signaled to Christiane Amanpour that she was interested in running for the Senate. She later returned with her husband and announced more economic assistance for Macedonia.

13. June 1999. Skopje. Greeting refugees in Stenkovac camp two days after riots in the camp had almost caused the death of a Roma family.

14. June 1999. Skopje. At the airport with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and British General Sir Michael Jackson (
back to camera, gesturing with his hand)
.