But now, especially in the wake of his perceived successes in Bosnia, the bluster is being enlisted to deal with the controversy swirling around the .1 billion in U. membership dues currently in arrears from the United States.“He knows what he wants and how to pursue it, relentlessly, one might say–his tenacity wears people down,” said Fareed Zakaria, the managing editor of Foreign Affairs .

Not since Adlai Stevenson was at the United Nations in the 1960’s has the ambassadorial post been as ready to combine social prominence and diplomatic influence. The Holbrookes have said they will stay in their apartment at the Beresford. Holbrooke’s collection of Asian art, it was part of Ms. The not-so-covert assumption regarding the official residence is that a grander space is desirable for a man driven to realize his tenacious dream of becoming Secretary of State. He and his wife of three years have become immediate candidates for the kind of gilt-edged couple encountered in one of his friend Ward Just’s Whartonesque Eastern Corridor novels.While Bruce Wasserstein is hosting his ,000-per-couple fund-raising dinner on Friday, July 31, and Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger host their blow-out “Summer Lawn Party” the next night to raise funds for the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Marton, author and human rights activist, will be lying low at their home in Bridgehampton, L. Holbrooke got his appointment from President Clinton in June and continued to jump around Europe. Marton went to Telluride, Colo., with her son, then joined her daughter on the European trip she’d given her for graduation from the Nightingale-Bamford School, then flew to Turkey, where, as designated representative of Human Rights Watch she had arranged to visit newly jailed dissident writer Ragib Duran and attempted to intercede with the Government on his behalf.“Calling from Ankara,” she said in one hurried message. residence where they will entertain may well transfer from the Waldorf Towers, leased for that purpose since 1947, to a larger place.“Spent the day with a man who has 13 bullets in his body, the head of the human-rights movement here, then I met with some people at the Foreign Ministry and told them about their shabby human rights record.” Mr. Marton have no plans to see the Clintons on their home turf, unless, Ms. ambassador’s suite in the Waldorf Towers–but the Holbrookes get to stay in their apartment at the Beresford, new home to Jerry Seinfeld. Under consideration is a million apartment in the Pierre Hotel, as well as space in Trump International Hotel and Tower, and the Trump World Tower.Marton said, “we just get one of those spontaneous phone calls” from the Presidential sleep-over at the Spielberg estate. That rumor seeped after an assessment conducted by the U. Inspector General’s office apparently indicated that the Waldorf quarters are no longer adequate.What can you say about a guy who used to ditch dates at the end of the evening for the opportunity to escort Jacqueline Onassis home?“He’s intellectually honest, but so blunt it can be disconcerting,” said Time magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson, who has socialized with him and Ms. David Halberstam, another friend from East Asian days, said that Mr.