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...America becomes more ethnically diverse, they must attract more minority voters to retain the majority. "This is not about being the party of the moment but the party that looks ahead," says an aide to the Speaker, who made Glenn a delegate to a June White House Social Security summit...
When the other leaders of the G-8 nations arrive in England for their annual summit this week, they will be greeted by the famously toothy smile of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They will switch on their smiles too, but mostly for show. Bill Clinton is stuck in the mire of the Lewinsky matter. Germany's Helmut Kohl is facing a September election he may not survive. Japan's Ryutaro Hashimoto is struggling to keep his government and his country's economy from collapsing. Boris Yeltsin is in poor health and is a political lame duck...
After Bill Clinton and Tony Blair finish with the elegant dinners and toasts at the G-8 summit this week in England, the real fun begins: the two leaders will lock themselves in a room with a clutch of top officials to talk about government policy for four or five hours. The Sunday meeting at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country mansion north of London, will be the third such bilateral seminar, following one at the White House, when Blair visited in February, and the inaugural 12-hr. "wonkathon" at Chequers in November, when Hillary Clinton...
ISLAMABAD: Washington won?t need on-point satellite intelligence to anticipate Pakistan's test of a nuclear device in the near future. The signs are hard to miss: ?To stop Pakistan from testing, the G8 summit would have had to come out with tangible and strong penalties against India,? says TIME intelligence correspondent Douglas Waller. ?But the summit came up only with rhetoric, not concrete measures...
...visit with Fidel Castro may also have been undertaken with his electorate in mind: ?Chretien?s Cuba trip will win him votes back home because he?s asserting his independence from the U.S.,? says TIME Toronto bureau chief Andrew Purvis. Chretien told Castro that most participants in the recent Summit of the Americas want Cuba to rejoin the hemisphere?s family of nations, and he also pressed for the release of dissidents. His primary message, however: Don?t tell Canada what to do, eh? And that?s a vote-getter on any issue...