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...settle for a tightrope next week when he welcomes China?s Jiang Zemin for the most important Chinese state visit since Deng Xiaoping charmed Americans in 1979. "Clinton is dealing here with the biggest challenge facing the U.S. for the foreseeable future," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "It's a relationship that will develop well into the next century...
...Bruce W. Nelan. Reported by Dean Fischer and Mark Thompson/Washington
...Madeleine Albright?s proposal that they take a "time out" from building new West Bank settlements, Israel seemed to take a U-turn Tuesday by insisting that its settlement policy remains unchanged. But this is likely to be little more than public posturing, notes TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. It is likely, he says, that an understanding on the issue has been reached in private...
...Clearly, the Israelis are worried that if they don?t restart talks, they might face another major uprising,? says Fischer. ?They might well have agreed quietly to not actually proceed with building settlements, because it would be very difficult for the Palestinians to agree to even these interim talks if Israel was building settlements.? Israel has also agreed to discuss other issues, such as the building of a Palestinian airport, which could help restore the process leading to the tricky "final status" negotiations envisaged by the Oslo Peace Accords. So while the war of words is bound to continue, both...
...Gore had less to show on other issues: Russia said it would proceed with plans to build a civilian nuclear reactor in Iran. And Yeltsin still intends to sign a bill curbing the operations of foreign-based religious groups. But TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer believes the nuclear agreement is more important: "This has been a long-term American objective," says Fischer, "and would balance any frustration at not reaching agreement on any other issues." Now if only the Senate could be that cooperative...