Word: newt
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...foreign policy and the plight of migrant workers to concrete issues like student group funding and cable television. Her approach was a direct refutation of the council's ideological status quo. In striking contrast to her liberal predecessor, the Georgia native is a Republican who interned for House Speaker Newt Gingrich during the summer...
Clinton signed the waiver; he has called it "routine." But since it was first reported two weeks ago--mixed in with the sensational but apparently tangential Chung-Liu allegations--the embarrassment has mounted beyond anything Clinton could have imagined. A House G.O.P. leader confirmed to TIME that Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Trent Lott have met with committee chairmen to discuss ways to highlight Clinton's embarrassing China dealings in advance of the President's visit to Beijing in June. The strategy appears to be working. Though the China connection may have nothing to do with Clinton...
JERUSALEM: Just for a moment, the kinder, gentler Newt returned. Meeting with Yasser Arafat Wednesday, Speaker Gingrich managed to put his runaway rhetoric on hold long enough to announce the American delegation was here "for the Palestinian children." That didn't mean his less-than-diplomatic statements -- describing Madeleine Albright as an "agent for the Palestinians," and Jerusalem as "the united and eternal capital of Israel" -- had been forgotten. TIME has learned that the U.S. embassy in Israel had to urge Arafat to appear in the same room as Gingrich. And while they were meeting, the Palestinian Legislative Council issued...
...Which doesn't exactly make Newt the best Mideast envoy the U.S. has ever had. According to TIME's Jerusalem correspondent Jamil Hamad, "Gingrich's statements will be used by Hamas as proof of an American pro-Israeli stance ... there's no doubt this is due to his own political aspirations, but Palestinians don't devalue his statements just because he's a candidate." Whatever political bombs Newt is trying to throw at home, he may regret it if suicide bombs start flying in Jerusalem...
...market meltdown was accompanied by a shift in speculation as to how Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko plans to save the economy: "The word yesterday was 'devaluation'; the word today is 'bailout,'" says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. And that may leave Russia's fate in the hands of Newt Gingrich and his congressional followers...