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If that finding is true, Clinton is on the edge of a major, long-term foreign crisis that could make Somalia and Haiti look like the small skirmishes they really were. He will have to decide how to make good his pledge -- not only to keep the North Koreans from...
FRESH FROM HIS FREE-TRADE TRIUMPH in the Americas, Bill Clinton bounded onstage at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in Seattle last week, singing the glories of pan-Pacific free trade. Amity and optimism were watchwords as the U.S. President greeted leaders from 14 other APEC members, sat through...
The Clinton-Hosokawa bilateral was just one highlight of the conference, touted as being of historic importance. That was hyperbole, but not in almost 40 years had so many Asian and Pacific heads of state gathered in one place. And while no dramatic decisions were taken, U.S. officials constantly repeated...
For that reason, Bill Clinton and his advisers regarded his talks with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Seattle last week as the most important of the summit with 15 Asian and Pacific leaders. Their hour-plus session was the highest-level contact between the U.S. and China since the massacre...
Recent events in Georgia provide a textbook case of this strategy. The devastating defeat that Abkhazian rebels dealt to Georgian troops in September would have been impossible without support from Russia's army. Subsequently, the Georgian leader, Eduard Shevardnadze, was forced to beg Yeltsin for membership in the C.I.S. The...