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Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov had been touring NATO capitals demanding a formal treaty between the alliance and Moscow. Yeltsin is looking for ironclad promises that the West will never move nuclear weapons and reinforcements into, say, Poland. Clinton has said no--that would give Moscow a veto over NATO decisions. Washington hopes Moscow will settle for a handsomely bound set of assurances, solemnly signed at a summit this spring...
...public, Tietmeyer backs the single-currency idea. But he has been adamant in calling for strict application of the Maastricht criteria and for ironclad rules to support the euro, so that it will be as strong as the German mark. Some believe that privately he is a single-currency foe fearful of losing his power to the new European Central Bank. Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in an extraordinary open letter last year, branded Tietmeyer's stance as anti-European. "If you continue with your stubborn policies," Schmidt wrote to the banker, "Germany will become isolated...
...with the line snaking up the stairs and into the lobby, students begin to realize 1 p.m. will not be an ironclad deadline...
...special-education budgets mushroom, some experts are looking for ways to soften the mandates. Edward Moscovitch, author of Special Education, Good Intentions Gone Awry, has one proposal. "I would have an ironclad provision that if a child is making reasonable progress in school, he doesn't get special ed., regardless of the disabilities," he says...
...peace talks in their tracks: he vowed not to cede the Golan Heights to Syria, not to stop Jewish settlements in the West Bank and to put off the redeployment of Israeli troops from Hebron. At the same time, the American-educated Israeli fears denting his country's ironclad relationship with the U.S. In that respect, his timing couldn't be better. "There's concern that Clinton is not going to confront Netanyahu with some very hard questions regarding his confrontational policies," reports TIME's Dean Fischer. "These are essential questions for the future of the peace process and Clinton...