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...Wednesday, the University joined in the commemoration of a 1745 raid on the French fort at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia by returning a two-foot, wrought-iron cross seized at the raid...
...hospital failed, an uneasy stalemate settled in. Chernomyrdin moved to break the deadlock by calling rebel leader Basayev directly by telephone at the hospital to discuss conditions for the release of the hostages, including a cease-fire in the Chechen war. Yeltsin meanwhile had gone to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the summit of the seven leading economic powers was being held. After meeting with Yeltsin, the seven condemned violence on both sides of the Chechen conflict...
...summit of G-7 leaders in Nova Scotia, the U.S. squabbled with France and Britain over funding the Rapid Reaction Force that those two countries and the Netherlands are deploying this week in Bosnia. An embarrassed President Clinton admitted to his counterparts that while he believes the U.S. "should pay a share" of the deployment costs, the Republican Congress would prevent the White House from paying the amount required by the U.N. assessment schedule...
...Italyagreed that the global economy is not growing as robustly as it was only a year ago and promised to used the fund to avert worldwide financial instability. "We cannot walk away from our global leadership responsibilities," Clinton told reprters at the G-7 summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the same time, he said the bailout fund will "help us prevent future Mexicos." In a nod to U.S. critics of the president's hastily-assembled peso plan, Clinton aides stressed that the International Monetary Fund would try to tap the resources of newly wealthy Asian countries to keep...
...sooner had the leaders of thebig seven economic powers arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia today, than President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama were trading tough talk about their trade standoff. Clinton refused to budge: "Billions of dollars in American exports and thousands of jobs are at stake," Clinton said of the automobile dispute, insisting that he would imposeunprecedented trade sanctions against Japanif the standoff continues past June 28. Murayama replied that the two allies should not conduct business "with both of our fists raised...