Word: clintons
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More important, however, the protesters' demands represented an assumption that President Clinton seemed to share, an assumption responsible in large part for the failure of the conference: that U.S. labor and environmental standards are equally desired across the globe. The U.S. no longer possesses, if it ever did, the ability to impose unilaterally its standards on the rest of the world. For developing nations to choose to implement such standards, the measures must be seen more as a means to improve their own welfare than as an outgrowth of American self-interest...
Score one for Madeleine Albright's choreography skills. Israel and Syria will resume face-to-face peace talks next week, President Clinton announced Wednesday, after Albright's meetings with the leaders of both states. Despite sharing a will to resume negotiations, the two sides differed fundamentally over what had been agreed in previous talks, which broke off in 1996. The Syrians want Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak to restate what they say was a promise by slain permier Yitzhak Rabin to hand back the captured Golan Heights in exchange for peace. Barak maintains that this was a hypothetical offer...
...Golan because he doesn't want to leave his son and appointed successor, Bashar, facing this complex problem. For the Israelis, a deal with Syria would put Israel at peace with all of its immediate neighbors." It may be some time, though, before the two sides reward President Clinton with a triumphant photo opportunity. "The talks will be hard because both sides are tough negotiators," says Dowell. "There's unlikely to be a quick resolution, but the talks themselves represent a major advance." Which may be why Barak will come to Washington himself rather than send his own foreign minister...
...Bill Clinton must have been licking his chops last week when a National Academy of Sciences report listed medical error as one of the nation's leading causes of death - and called for some measure of health care reform. Clinton's foiled attempt at sweeping health care reform remains one of the great failures of his domestic agenda. And so, in an attempt to beat the rest of the political world to the punch, Clinton announced a plan Monday to drastically reduce the number of medical errors perpetrated each year, which the NAS report listed as causing upwards...
...While the real teeth of this effort - the regulatory agency and the funding apparatus - are contained in a bill proposed by Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy, Clinton's executive order has more clout, since it could take effect in as little as two months with the benefit of no political haggling. The plan requires all insurance companies and medical providers that receive federal funding (roughly one third of all hospital and doctor visits) to develop practices to avoid medical errors. This is such a huge chunk of the medical industry that experts say it could lead to industry-wide reform...