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...that are not only economic but strategic: the end of the cold war has created an East Asian power vacuum in which Vietnam could play a key role. Swollen by an astonishing economic boom of its own, China appears eager to muscle into that vacuum. Its recent moves to garrison disputed islands in the South China Sea have even led to arguments by top Vietnamese officials that the U.S. uphold the regional balance of power by bringing Vietnam back into its orbit of influence...
...Garrison Keillor is the host of A Prairie Home Companion, heard every Saturday night on public radio...
...government claimed that the offensive successfully reasserted its authority throughout the region. Indeed, in Guadalupe Tepeyac, where the Zapatista leader who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos made his headquarters most of last year, a garrison of 20 soldiers did seem to be in command--but in command of a ghost town. Elsewhere too, Zapatistas were neither fighting nor giving up but melting away into the jungle, sometimes with families in tow. As a car carrying two journalists approached the village of Oventik, 20 men who had been hoeing at the ground ran into their huts, grabbed clothes, firewood and babies...
...character--namely Paula Jones' pending sexual- harassment lawsuit and the federal investigation into Whitewater--words in a book can barely hurt him. Last week trustees of Clinton's legal-defense fund released a list of donors for its first six months of operation. Celebrities such as Barbra Streisand and Garrison Keillor each put up the maximum $1,000 contribution. So far, 5,865 people have donated $608,000, still short of Clinton's estimated legal expenses of as much as $2 million...
...million for fees in the Whitewater probe and thePaula Jones case, collected $608,000 in its first six months, according to figures disclosed today. Among the 5,865 donors from all 50 states were former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, and entertainers Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn and Garrison Keillor. (The average donation was $104, but the notables contributed the $1,000 limit.) Also on the list: several of Washington's top-tier lobbyists, who gave before Clinton vowed to stop takingsuch donationsafter criticism from Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole...