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Even under the June sunshine, Bill Clinton found Moscow a little chilly for his liking. The Yeltsin years got the U.S. president accustomed to dealing with a Russian leader as pliant as a puppy so long as his begging bowl was filled, but Sunday's summit with just-anointed President Vladimir Putin saw Mr. Clinton facing a Russian leader less prone to accommodating Western concerns. And on the key issue of missile defense, President Putin holds the cards that can make life a little uncomfortable for the U.S. leader. "President Clinton needs a deal on missile defense far more than...
European Union leaders weren't exactly lining up to applaud President Clinton off the field following what looks to have been their last summit of his presidency. They agreed to disagree on the issues vexing transatlantic trade - ranging from genetically modified foods to European banana subsidies - at their meeting in Portugal on Wednesday, and President Clinton's offer to share U.S. missile defense technology did little to dilute European opposition to Washington's plan to build even a limited defensive shield. "The Europeans are hurt and angry that they weren't consulted about the U.S. decision, particularly after Defense Secretary...
...peace and European unity Friday, will complain that a "Star Wars"-type missile defense system could kick off a new multinational arms race and decouple America's and Europe's security interests by isolating the U.S. behind the shield of its dreams. Expect similar resistance at Clinton's weekend summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin: the pair may finalize a deal to each destroy 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium, but White House aides are setting expectations very, very low on the Star Wars discussions. "I do not expect any agreements to be reached on these issues," National Security...
...with NATO expansion last spring. But most of the time he enjoys outfoxing the White House, as he did last year when he got the Senate to reject the nuclear test-ban treaty. At the end of next week, when Clinton flies to Moscow for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he will be looking over his shoulder at the North Carolinian. Helms, worried that Clinton might agree to Russian demands that the U.S. curb its missile-defense program, has already told the President not to bring back an arms deal, particularly one that keeps the Antiballistic Missile...
...most anticipated--and hyped--meeting between two politicians since the last cold war summit was almost derailed by a 14-year-old boy. Just two days before John McCain and George W. Bush were scheduled to make official their detente, the Texas Governor placed an ice-breaking phone call to the Arizona Senator's mountain retreat. He reached Jack McCain. Dad's outside, said the teenager. Could the Republican nominee call back later? No big deal. Back to Game Boy. Jack promptly forgot about the call and never told his father. "I wanted to throttle him," McCain laughs now. Three...