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Sachs: In countries that have undertaken real reforms, they are working. If you look at countries like Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia or Latvia, inflation has been nearly eliminated and growth has been restored. Whether it is a left-of-center government, as in Poland, or right-of-center government, as in the Czech Republic, they are all following the same policy of privatization, open trade and integration with Europe. The policies work. There are lots of experiments going on. The successful countries uniformly are the ones undertaking strong reforms. The countries that are falling far behind or into chaos...
...conference call Tuesday night between Clinton's entourage in Prague and people at the White House ended with no final decision. But before leaving the Czech capital Wednesday morning, Clinton told advisers, "I want to get on with the business of my presidency," and gave the go-ahead for a special counsel. Officially, the decision came in a letter from White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum to Attorney General Janet Reno...
...keep 100,000 troops there. Brussels was the site of a two-day nato summit, and the alliance agreed to Clinton's Partnership for Peace plan. The initiative provides for the possibility of former Warsaw Pact countries' joining NATO gradually over an unspecified period. The President toured Prague with Czech President Vaclav Havel and then arrived in Moscow, where he urged Russians to continue reforming their economy. In the Kremlin, Clinton signed an agreement with Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk, the President of Ukraine, dealing with Ukraine's nuclear weapons...
...with Polish forces as early as this year. But while strengthening links, the Partnership will fall far short of full membership in the Western alliance. That status carries a sensitive and binding security guarantee -- that an attack on one is an attack on all. Central Europeans, especially the Poles, Czechs and Hungarians, have been clamoring for full membership because they perceive a "security vacuum" in the region. They argue in essence that the West is naive to believe the Russians can be anything but imperialists. NATO, they add, owes them protection as they struggle to develop democratic, free-market societies...
After stroking the leaders of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in Prague, Clinton will arrive in Moscow on Wednesday for three days of talks. One person he will not meet is the politician who set off the alarms in Central Europe and a flurry of reconsiderations in Washington: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Moscow's ascendant neofascist. When he learned Clinton would not see him, Zhirinovsky, whose party won about 23% of the popular vote in last month's parliamentary elections, launched into one of his frequent tirades. He said the President's decision showed he was "a coward" who should...