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Rosenthal stressed the importance of consistently seeing one clinician. "You are going to be here for at least four years--I think it's important to establish a primary care relationship," he said. "[It is] this continuity of health care that will get people better faster...
...John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, today said the U.S. should establish fulldiplomatic relations with Hanoithis year. McCain, who spent six years in North Vietnamese prisons, made the statement in Hanoi after watching Vietnamese officials hand over to the U.S. military 10 plain wooden boxes holding what are believed to be the remains of American M.I.A.s. Though Vietnam veterans groups still favor a go-slow approach,TIME senior writer Bruce Nelansays McCain's moral authority will probably lend the Clinton Administration credibility inshepherding U.S. investment efforts in Vietnam, which already total $525 million since...
...Clinton Administration today proposed establishing a free trade zone to eliminate duties on commerce between the U.S. and Western European nations. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke stressed that the concept has not gone beyond the proposal stage since it was first talked about in the White House six months ago. "It is a good idea whose time hasn't come yet," Holbrooke said. The idea originated from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland and was discussed between Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major during their Washington summit yesterday . European nations have complained thatNAFTAand U.S. attempts to establish a similar...
Despite taking two important Chechen cities, Argun and Shali, last week, the Russian army faces a long slog in Chechnya. "It won't end so quickly," said the Russian commander, Colonel General Anatoli S. Kulikov. "We calculate that by the summer period, we can establish control of two-thirds of the territory...
...more divisive than power and money. Only four years after the U.S. and its allies set up an enclave in northern Iraq to protect 4 million Kurds from annihilation by Saddam Hussein's vengeful army, the Kurds are threatening to annihilate themselves--because two rival leaders each hope to establish and control an independent Kurdistan overlapping the borders of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. Massoud Barzani, who leads the western half of the enclave, is shy, soft spoken and uncomfortable around foreigners. Jalal Talabani, who controls the east, is a garrulous jet-setter who mixes well at embassy parties...