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Politicians were quick to ask those questions. Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, pledged an "extensive, exhaustive review" of the case. Republicans in both chambers demanded a "rethinking" of the Clinton Administration's close ties to Russian President Boris Yeltsin and threatened to halt aid to Russia if Moscow didn't come up with some explanations -- and fast...
Clinton, meanwhile, resisted calls to halt or cut foreign aid to Russia, holding fast to his support of Yeltsin and Russia's democratizing and economic reforms. "A great portion of our aid is to facilitate the dismantlement of nuclear weapons that were aimed at the United States for over four decades," he told leaders in both chambers. "It is in our interest, plainly, to continue this policy." The President's position is unlikely to change. In the roughly 10 months that he has known the Ameses were under investigation by a joint FBI-CIA task force, his policy toward Russia...
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...majority of them back the A.N.C., this might look easy. It is not. Last week a boycott of the election by an odd-fellows alliance of blacks and conservative whites looked certain when talks with the A.N.C. and the government over ethnic autonomy sputtered to a near halt as the deadline to get on the ballot passed. Some die-hard whites have voted against participation. Additional pressure came from Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who told President F.W. de Klerk that if the interim constitution did not give more powers to regional governments, he would not abide by the results...
After weeks of setbacks, word came from Switzerland that the Middle East peace talks were back on track. But by week's end squabbles over the terms of Palestinian self-rule in Jericho and the Gaza Strip had once more brought things to a halt. Exasperated by splits between his Foreign and Defense ministries, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin speculated that the present deadlock could last at least another three or four weeks...