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Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence in the Kennedy School of Government A. Leon Hig-ginbotham Jr., who moderated the event, brought up the issue of race at the outset...
...take at least a month. White House officials, meanwhile, made it clear that they were relishing the thought of Clinton vetoing any measure perceived as diluting crime fighting efforts. "We would not be disappointed if that was one of the first vetoes we cast," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta told the Associated Press...
...President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon still must reform the policies that caused the latest crisis--specifically, Mexico's reliance on foreign capital. Much of those funds fled in December when the government, unable to prop up the overvalued peso any longer, let the currency float. Now Zedillo is taking the politically risky steps of slashing government spending and jacking up interest rates to slow the economy and wean it from its dependence on ``hot money''--foreign investments in securities that can easily be dumped. Says Allen Sinai, the chief economist for Lehman Bros.: ``Mexico must swallow a recession...
...Economic Council, Rubin knew little about lobbying Capitol Hill. Although Treasury had prepared a state-by-state analysis of how a Mexican meltdown would affect U.S. employment, for example, most members of Congress never learned of its existence. Moreover, Clinton and top aides like White House chief of staff Leon Panetta were focused on the President's Jan. 24 State of the Union message and failed to give Rubin much support...
...Mexico's political and economic drama. Unrestrained plundering and conspicuous political corruption can no longer be the order of the day. But aren't all of us Mexicans sadly united by mounting rage? The former President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and our new President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, owe every kind of satisfaction to our country. It is their national duty to face the people and make clear to Mexicans and the nations of the world why and how our country has fallen into crisis...