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Meetings with the Sultan of Brunei and Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel will follow when President Mandela returns to South Africa...
...details" of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but admitted that the people "know what happened" and he still had to "atone for what I did." But what of Congress, what of the release of his videotaped testimony, what of impeachment? "It's outside my authority," shrugged the President. Havel, meanwhile, showed his host an even better way to answer scandal questions. Asked if Clinton's misdeeds had had any effect on him, the absurdist playwright replied: "I congratulate Mr. McGwire and wish success to Mr. Sammy Sosa." Now that's how to get the hometown crowd on your side...
WASHINGTON: As Vernon Jordan might say, mission accomplished. President Clinton's first press conference since the release of the Starr report passed relatively smoothly Wednesday -- and in many ways was more memorable for the comments of Clinton's guest, Czech president Vaclev Havel. That's just the way Clinton wanted it. "He successfully parried all questions without adding anything new to the debate," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "There's a double game going on here -- his lawyers argue the specifics, and he's not to be seen to get into legalisms...
...country's President Vaclav Havel, who is elected separately, has recently criticized the two most powerful parties, the Social Democrats and the CDP. He called their leaders' plan to share power--with one serving as prime minister and one heading the parliament-unconstitutional...
...Havel, president since 1993 and leader of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that ousted the communist party, is losing popularity in the media. His health is also declining, and he will undergo abdominal surgery on July...