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This was a breathtaking challenge to his opponent in the White House. The killer line was the assertion that the Administration's failings were born not of the political so much as the personal. Dole's attack was unforgiving and absolute, a big departure from the language of backroom compromise. The perpetrators, he said, were "a corps of the elite who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered and never learned...
Ultimately, many Burmese hope for a gradual return to civilian rule, with the military taking a backroom power- and money-sharing role, as it does in Thailand and Indonesia. But everything depends on Suu Kyi. Now she is free to walk from the house that has been her prison for six years. But is she free to travel? To take up her democratic campaign -- or, indeed, the mandate given to her by the Burmese people in 1990? That's almost certainly not the kind of freedom handed to her by the 21-general junta last week. The only thing that...
While human rights and other sensitive issues must be kept on the table, they are probably better fostered through commercial and academic contact and in backroom conversation, out of the spotlight of public discourse and posturing congressional debate. China is simply too important to become a political football in Washington. Clinton conceded as much when he ended linkage between trade and human rights by renewing China's most-favored-nation status a year ago despite its dismal human-rights record. By then it was evident that for all its brutality, the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown had not been a political watershed...
...ambition to become Prime Minister could elude him if he appears to back down now. At the same time, his Liberal Democratic Party, which had governed Japan for some 45 years but is now only the largest faction in a coalition government, may no longer have the backroom clout to bring the country's powerful bureaucrats into a compromise that would avert a trade...
...Issues should not be settled by phone calls and backroom deals. They should be settled in front of the full council," Stafford added...