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Article: Obama to Tag Mitchell As Middle East Envoy.(Barack Obama and George Mitchell)(Brief article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 21, 2009
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Byline: Andrew Burt
President Barack Obama is likely to name former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell envoy to the Middle East. The appointment could come this week. Mitchell, known for his work in the peacemaking efforts in Northern Ireland and help in the Major League Baseball steroids scandal (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3153509), suggested in the 2001 Mitchell Report (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/Mitchellrep.html) that Israel halt the expansion of settlements in exchange for nonviolence and the dismantling of terrorist networks from the ...
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