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...rough treatment that Republicans could dish out to what remains of the new world order visibly worries the Europeans. At the least, the Republican- controlled Congress may try to gut the U.N. peacekeeping budget, in light of the Balkan experience. Dissension was not afflicting the U.S. alone though. In Germany the Suddeutsche Zeitung last week put on its front page a classified wire sent to Bonn by the German ambassador to NATO, Hermann von Richthofen, a grandnephew of the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron. His complaints centered on what he styled an arbitrary U.S. push...
...author seems to have used these stories as sketches for longer fiction, and no single effort stands out as a masterpiece. There is a rough, unshaped quality to some of them not seen in his well-made novels, as if Auchincloss had simply stopped writing when an idea or character ran dry. But the collection as a whole is powerful and chilling. It is as harsh as anything in current literature, an expression of disgust and revulsion maintained over five decades. The author has written some 50 books, is a lawyer from a wealthy old New York family...
...chairman of the prestigious committee, Helms will be in a position to make his strongly conservative -- and sometimes highly quixotic -- foreign policy views matter. Two weeks ago, he sent Clinton a letter threatening to give the Administration's foreign policy a rough ride for the next two years unless the President deferred the vote on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the new session of Congress. A Senate aide likened the tactic to "kidnapping a child and sending a ransom note even though you plan to kill the kid anyway...
...important to distinguish Helms' ferocious bark from his bite. The Senator has said, for example, that he favors a "surgical" operation to decapitate Fidel Castro, but he doesn't have the power to make something like that happen. His rough agenda as chief of the foreign policy panel, while conservative, is not wholly outside the mainstream. His doubts about Clinton's controversial pact with North Korea to curb its nuclear program in exchange for new light-water reactors financed by Japan and South Korea are shared by other Republicans. He will look into drug trafficking and human-rights violations...
Ernesto ZedilloPonce de Leon, the reform-minded candidate of Mexico's ruling PRI party, was sworn in as his country's president today promising a war against poverty -- an effort to provide "dignified living conditions for every Mexican family." The inauguration followed a rough-and-tumble year that saw theassassinations of his party's first candidateand its secretary-general, plus anIndian rebellionand the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The 42-year-old, U.S.-educated economist -- speaking before 1,500 Mexican officials as well as foreign leaders as diverse as Vice President Al Gore and Cuba's Fidel...