Warm reception for Latvia's Iron Lady

  • 1999-09-30
  • By Benjamin Smith
nEW YORK/WASHINGTON, D.C. - Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga weathered public bluster from the Russian foreign minister on her first official visit to the United States, where she pushed Latvian entry into NATO and bolstered Latvia's internatiOver the course of the week beginning Sept. 20, Vike-Freiberga met with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, American NATO experts, and with several U.S. legislators, but much of her visit focused on the symbolic: She addressed the United Nations General Assembly, sat next to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan at a luncheon with Bill Clint...
 
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