If you are Australian, chances are you know the rock band called The Go-Betweens.

NPR: Go-Betweens' Robert Forster Goes Solo

That's how it was on all three albums The Go-Betweens released in this decade, after an amicable 10-year layoff.

NPR: Go-Betweens' Robert Forster Goes Solo

The band has been influential around the world, although it's not as well known in the U.S. In 2006, one of the group's founders died suddenly of a heart attack, and the Go-Betweens came to an end.

NPR: Go-Betweens' Robert Forster Goes Solo

Before this, he has kept his distance by merely using America's ambassadors in the region as go-betweens.

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"Unfortunately, our mission is to be go-betweens on the springboard to the next life, " she added.

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Western governments have suggested operating through go-betweens such as the UN.

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Some Basque bishops, who have acted as go-betweens before, say they might yet persuade the bombers to hold back.

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