Longtime diplomat Richard Holbrooke dies
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON-Richard C. Holbrooke, the hard-charging diplomat who brokered peace in the Balkans and then took on an even tougher task as the Obama administration’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, died Monday night at age 69. Holbrooke, whose career spanned nearly five decades, was a forceful presence both in U.S. foreign policy whether in or out of office. He negotiated the 1995 Dayton Accords, which ended the war in Bosnia; served as ambassador to the United Nations and to Germany; and mentored a younger generation of American diplomats. His death, from heart problems that sent him to the hospital Friday, is a heavy blow to President Barack…
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