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...nationally televised press conference, Clinton conceded that the midterm elections would be "extremely contentious" and called on Republicans to stop obstructing Democratic initiatives "every step of the way" after the election. Owed more credit, according to the Prez: his handling of the economic recovery, deficit reduction and student loans, to name a few. "Almost always at midterm the incumbent President's party loses seats. That's partly because there's a lag between when you do something and when people feel it," he said...
...Russian Prez Boris Yeltsin made his standup comedy debut during a press conference at the White House, mugging with his interpreter and causing even the stoic Veep Al Gore to crack up. But by all accounts, progress between the U.S. and Russia seems serious. Both agreed to speed up the timetable of dismantling warheads as required by START II agreement reached last year. Clinton also boosted his Russian aid pledge to $1 billion. Other notable deals: U.S. intelligence agencies will now help their counterparts in Russia in tracking down plutonium smugglers, and Clinton managed to convince the burly Russian leader...
...deferring any action on that for four to six months," the President said today. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a Serb ally, added his two cents during his current visit to Washington, saying he would oppose Clinton's threatened action. All this pressure was probably the best thing for the Prez's beleaguered Bosnia plan: "It gave Clinton an opportunity to back out of something that was ill-advised in the first place," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief James L. Graff...
...Russian Prez in Ukraine...
...months: that President Clinton's health-care proposal is dead. Senate majority leader George Mitchell and House Speaker Tom Foley stated that they were working on their own health-care proposal. Clinton said that's fine by him. But the new bill might be quite different from anything the Prez has in mind: Mitchell said today that his plan would be "less bureaucratic, more voluntary and will be phased in over a longer period of time." The Senator also hinted that the plan would require employers to pay only 50 percent of their workers' insurance--a big cut from Clinton...