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...that Suharto could drive Indonesia into a collapse that would flood its neighbors with refugees. One appeal came from Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who called Clinton to urge the U.S. to intervene. That helped trigger a Feb. 18 White House session in which Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin proposed Mondale, a former ambassador to Japan, as Clinton's envoy. Participants agreed that Mondale had the clout to pressure Suharto while reassuring him that the U.S. remains his friend...
...soothing Saddam's offended sense of sovereignty by sending Security Council diplomats along with the inspectors, but not if the diplomats get in the way or try to limit inspections anywhere and everywhere. "If a few diplomats were to accompany UNSCOM under certain conditions," says State Department spokesman James Rubin, "we don't have a problem with that." But the commission must have "operational control and access to sites it does not now have access...
...learning these values does not preclude students from being selfish as well. It is, in fact, the institutional structure that enables students to concentrate on themselves. To the same question I asked Dean Lewis about whether or not college was a selfish period, Henry Rubin, a lecturer on social studies, responded, "Most definitely. [College] is one of the last times that you get the kind of intensive institutional support for guiding you through life choices that will matter to your life chances...Most of all, you haven't yet made the kinds of decisions that `lock' you into any particular...
Last week the Administration began its campaign on Capitol Hill to replenish the coffers of the International Monetary Fund, which were depleted by its $120 billion bailout of Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin went to Congress to request an $18 billion boost for the IMF. Getting it will not be easy, since last year Congress rejected a much smaller request...
...sincere can Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin be about the U.S.'s taking a more active role in aiding hard-pressed Asian nations [WORLD, Jan. 12]? Isn't this the guy whose links to an investment bank that underwrote Mexican bonds came under scrutiny after he mobilized the financial rescue of Mexico that included $20 billion from the U.S.? By destabilizing foreign currencies, Rubin and his ilk have done more to propagate human misery than the worst despots. They charge high interest rates to foreign countries, knowing that the U.S. taxpayer or the International Monetary Fund will aid these nations. JERRY...