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...since it was first talked about in the White House six months ago. "It is a good idea whose time hasn't come yet," Holbrooke said. The idea originated from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland and was discussed between Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major during their Washington summit yesterday . European nations have complained thatNAFTAand U.S. attempts to establish a similar agreement with countries across the Pacific could put them at a disadvantage...
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in a new bid for international acceptance, made a round of political and social visits in Europe. Occasionally swapping his trademark fatigues for a dark blue suit and spotted tie, he criticized "blind and savage market laws" at the world-poverty summit in Copenhagen, told UNESCO in Paris that the U.S. blockade of Cuba was "criminal" and basked in the lavish praise of outgoing Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand and his wife Danielle. Castro also played tourist. "My strongest impression?" he told reporters. "Chablis wine...
Students for Choice has chartered three buses to transport students to the one-day event, which is being held in conjunction with the Young Feminist Summit on Violence...
...open economic opportunities and provide social services for women around the world. The First Lady's appearance at the one-day conference in New York City follows her appeal for the improvement of the lives of the world's poor women and children at last week's international summit on poverty in Copenhagen. TIME reporter Bonnie Angelo notes that having kept a low profile for the last few months, Mrs. Clinton is now speaking out on "conventional womens' issues, which are safer territory for a first lady than shaping health care policy...
There are moments, like the one the other day in Ottawa, when Bill Clinton may wonder why he is bothering to run for re-election. At the end of a summit with Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Clinton was asked by an American reporter if it was true, as a local newspaper had suggested, that he had traveled to Canada more as a "titular" leader than an actual one, given how power had shifted to the Republican-controlled Congress. Clinton bristled. "Unless I miss my guess, a bill doesn't become law unless I sign it or it passes over...