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...news conference. "We are on the same side." Albright later met with a pale and wan Boris Yeltsin, and told reporters that the ailing President seemed "on top of his game," "knowing exactly what he wanted to achieve," and fully up to meeting President Clinton for a March summit in Helsinki...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a concession to Boris Yeltsin's continued poor health, President Clinton will travel to Helsinki next month for a two-day summit. The meeting, scheduled for March 20-21, was originally set for Washington, but was moved to a site closer to Moscow out of concerns about the Russian President. The trip will be Yeltsin's first trip abroad in nearly a year, after heart ailments and pneumonia in the last six months. Although the meeting is partially designed to show that Yeltsin can still perform his duties, the summit will be more than a photo...
Reiner says he became interested in baby brain activity three years ago during his own analysis. Now he is taking his case directly to the top. He has been urging President Clinton to host a Washington summit on the subject, and last month sat beside Hillary Clinton at a White House arts-award dinner. The next day she gave a speech that included a long section on early-childhood learning. "It's an important issue for the President to get on," says Reiner. "You talk about trying to fix the welfare situation. This...
...gesture of declining value, the president's real purpose was to prove that he is able to show up at work. Aides aroused new suspicions about his health problems Monday, when they canceled Yeltsin's planned Feb. 4 trip to the Netherlands to consult with EU leaders. His March summit with President Clinton had already been postponed, and now are placing increased emphasis on a meeting next month between fellow heartbeat-aways Chernomyrdin and Al Gore...
JERUSALEM: Internal political considerations prevented Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from beginning the New Year with an agreement in place on Israeli troop withdrawal from Hebron. Netanyahu was forced to postpone his New Year?s Eve summit with Arafat in order to guide his 1997 budget through the Israeli Knesset as crucial close votes coincided with the peace talks. U.S. mediator Dennis Ross said that while the two sides were very close on the Hebron agreement, ?We are not there yet.? While peace is vital to Israel, Netanyahu confronted a domestic challenge that kept...