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...instead of continuing to demand that Tokyo open five priority markets ranging from automobiles to insurance. American officials said a deal covering telecommunications, medical equipment and insurance could be ready for signing next month when representatives of the world's leading industrial countries gather at the Group of Seven summit in Naples, Italy...
President Clinton will be the first U.S. leader to visit independent Russian neighbors Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia next month when he kicks off a grand swing through Europe. The Baltic stop will precede a meeting with Polish President Lech Walesa and the G-7 economic summit on July 8-10 in Naples. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says a friendly presidential visit to the Baltics was inevitable: they're serving as pathfinders to show Russia the way to modernization...
...Moscow, President Boris Yeltsin told visiting South Korean President Kim Young Sam he would consider approving an embargo if diplomatic efforts failed. But his first choice was a summit meeting in which the inspection issue would be negotiated -- and Russia could win some international prestige. The U.S. insists that the Security Council is the appropriate forum for such discussions...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People began its annual three-day summit in Baltimore with a call to boycott South Carolina. The group was reacting to a statement by a federal judge in the Palmetto State, who said he doubted that a suit to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse had much of a chance of success. More quietly, the N.A.A.C.P. welcomed Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, to their gathering...
...sure, the foreign policy significance of this trip is not large. Most of the stops are more ceremonial than substantive. The more important overseas trip comes next month, when Clinton attends the G-7 economic summit in Naples. But just preparing for the trip has been a tonic for Clinton. Aides admit that until recently he focused on overseas problems only as they arose; for the past month or so, he has had special foreign policy bull sessions on Thursday or Friday to anticipate problems before they crop up. And he has immersed himself with characteristic intensity in preparing...