Envoy Candidate Apologizes to Panel
From Times Wire Reports
A year to the day after President Clinton named him to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke apologized for what he called bookkeeping lapses that led to an ethics investigation. Holbrooke’s humility on the first day of hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his nomination appeared to placate the committee’s chairman, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), and to clear the way for his confirmation, perhaps before the Senate’s July 4 break, committee members and staff aides said.
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