Word: summited
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Call it red-button relations. After all that speechmaking on the need for economic reform -- most of it preached to the economists who don't need it, rather than the politicians who do -- the only real action taken by President Clinton during his two-day summit in Moscow was this: He and Yeltsin agreed to slash their nuclear stockpiles by 50 tons of plutonium each, and to share sensitive information on each other's missile launches. Arms control and early warning systems may not seem so relevant at a time like this, and 50 tons represents barely a quarter...
MOSCOW: Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin visited a Moscow school Tuesday -- an appropriate venue to open a summit at which the U.S. president will learn some hard lessons. "No matter what he says in public, Clinton is going to come away rather shaken from his meetings with Yeltsin," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Until now there's been a lot of wishful thinking going on in Washington, but there's little chance that Yeltsin will show the necessary intellectual stamina to convince the Americans that he's in charge...
...outcome the West wants fervently to avoid. Although they disapproved of the devaluation, the Clinton Administration and the IMF say they will work with Moscow to get through the crisis and pursue broader reforms. When Bill Clinton arrives in Moscow on Sept. 1 for a two-day summit, he intends to tell Yeltsin that. But because democracy has begun to take hold in Russia, the country's wary voters will ultimately decide its course...
...start of September, the U.S. makes a perfect target for that redirected wrath. "With all the currency woes, it's not a bad time to accuse the West of trying to weaken Russia from without," says Quinn-Judge. "It's his way of softening up Clinton before the summit...
...garden of the Elysee Palace to chat over champagne and hors d'oeuvres. Chirac caught Clinton by the arm and pulled him off to the side for a private chat with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The subject of this impromptu mini-summit: the plan to kidnap Karadzic...