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...meetings are necessary, they say, because lower-level bureaucrats won't get things done unless they see their bosses agreeing on them. But infrequent summits come freighted with unrealistic expectations. Therefore, summits should be held regularly. "We want them to become routine," says McCurry, "so that they lay the groundwork for getting business done, not the place where the business is done." If Clinton follows through, he may be able to fit in another glorious summer holiday in China next year...
...visit to Iraq. ROGER CARDINAL ETCHEGARAY, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was recently in Baghdad to bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray--who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations--was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the Pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt...
Roger Cardinal Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, was recently in Baghdad to bemoan the "perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray -- who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations -- was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt's Mount Sinai...
...week later, when U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson arrives in India to lay the groundwork for President Clinton's visit later this year, he delivers the usual boilerplate warnings that India should exercise "restraint" in its nuclear program and take "no provocative actions." India's Defense Minister George Fernandes assures Richardson that New Delhi will do nothing rash, since it is still engaged in that policy review. "We were sucked in," says a U.S. diplomat. "We came away from the meetings saying, 'Hey, they're not going to take any precipitous actions.'" A stern letter is sent to Clinton by Pakistani...
Though he has no organization and isn't yet raising money, Bradley is laying the groundwork for a run. Last year he hired a chief of staff, veteran Democratic operative Ed Turlington, who operates out of Bradley's small office in Palo Alto, Calif., near the campus of Stanford University, where Bradley is a visiting professor this year. And sources close to Bradley tell TIME that their man has been in discussions with New Jersey trial lawyer Ted Wells, a major Democratic fund raiser and former Bradley finance chairman, to plan what a clean-but-effective fund-raising operation might...