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President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama ended a quick Washington summit today by plugging the upbeat side of current U.S.-Japanese relations: joint support of the North Korean nuclear pact and the mini-breakthrough to allow U.S. apples onto Japanese shelves. The little-mentioned downside: The U.S. trade gap with Japan has grown, Clinton admitted, and "further progress must be made" to open Japan's markets to U.S. autos and auto parts, which account for nearly 60 percent of the deficit...
...single country could also be imperiled. A successful bid for independence by Chechnya could encourage secessionist movements in scores of other unhappy ethnic and economic enclaves. On a broader canvas still, the worldwide trend of small ethnic groups to break away from larger sovereignties and form their own mini-nations could get either a stiff setback or a strong boost from Chechnya's fate...
...Jersey mini-mall, the convenience-store guy and his pal from the video store talk dirty but think long and wistfully about the life that is passing them by. Their customers and girlfriends are just as lost, goofy and irrelevant. The budget for Kevin Smith's movie was $27,575, but he's the Chekhov of slacker life -- and maybe of America's secret life...
...more food, more unfrozen water, more heating fuel. Miles of white netting will be required to shroud olive-drab military gear. Snow fouls weapons, and cold air produces large clouds of condensation when the weapons are fired, making it easy to pinpoint the shooter. Helicopter rotor blades whip up mini- blizzards that can blind pilots...
...that end, they each play 17 instruments, one for each of the album's tracks, with Rice on guitar and Grisman on mandolin. The care and affection for these instruments is evident in the lavish forty-page liner notes insert. Replete with more than 100 photographs, it is a mini-documentary on the craftsmanship and evolution of string instrument-manufacturing in this country. But all of this devotion takes the focus away from the music. Though both of these men are masters of their instruments, the duets they offer here are largely lacking in lyricism and originality...