Treaty of Gogrial!

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The Treaty of Gogrial Between Congressman Bill Richardson and Commander
Kerubino Kwanyin Bol in 1996.
BAIL BONDSMAN TO THE WORLD Monday, Dec. 23, 1996 By DOUGLAS WALLER/WASHINGTON Article ToolsPrintEmailReprints The haggling under a broad mango tree in the dusty, hot Sudanese village of Gogrial had dragged on for four hours. Flies buzzed around; seven-year-old boys toting automatic rifles played among the grass huts; a vulture watched from a thatched roof. Guerrilla commander Kerubino Kwanyin Bol, in sunglasses and camouflage fatigues and with an AK-47 propped against his chair, wanted $2.5 million for the three Red Cross hostages. "You're not getting that," Congressman Bill Richardson said. The best he could offer was bags of rice, four jeeps, nine radios, help in sanitizing the local water, and vaccines for the village children. "Can you add a tractor?" Kerubino finally asked. "Done," Richardson replied. The Treaty of Gogrial was pecked out on a battery-powered laptop computer. Richardson passed around congressional cuff links to the guerrillas. Kerubino presented him with first an elephant-hair bracelet and then a lunch of grilled goat and okra stew. Later the three tearful hostages were bundled into a rickety DC-3 prop plane to freedom. Need an American sprung from jail in a hostile country? For the past two years Bill Clinton's favorite bail bondsman to the world has been Richardson, a beefy, cigar-chomping New Mexico Congressman whose addiction to winning people over is almost as legendary as the President's. (He once shook 8,871 hands in one day of campaigning.) Last week, after Richardson returned from his sixth rescue mission, Clinton picked him as his new U.N. ambassador, replacing Madeleine Albright, who has been nominated to the job of Secretary of State. The two men have become good friends, in part because Clinton has so enjoyed listening to the seven-term Congressman's accounts of his Indiana Jones adventures. Richardson "has undertaken the toughest and most delicate diplomatic efforts around the world," the President said in announcing his nomination last week. Richardson negotiated the release of U.S. Army pilot Bobby Hall from North Korea in 1994, and just last month was sent back to that country to free American Evan Hunziker. In 1994 he also pressured the Burmese government to free Nobel-prizewinning dissident Aung San Suu Kyi and helped persuade Haitian military ruler Raoul Cedras to leave power. And in the summer of 1995 he pried defense contractors William Barloon and David Daliberti from the grip of Saddam Hussein after they spent 114 days in jail for mistakenly crossing into Iraq. Richardson has kept an overnight bag in his Capitol Hill office, and a State Department officer is detailed to him to help arrange his quick flights into unfriendly territory. The State Department has found him a useful unofficial envoy to states with which it has strained relations. "It's a way to send in someone with credibility through the back door," explains a White House aide.