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...have to go back at least 18 years to find a moment of comparable Washington-Moscow tension. President Boris Yeltsin arrived in Istanbul Wednesday spoiling for a fight when he meets President Clinton at Thursday's summit meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Amid rising Western alarm over Moscow?s military campaign in Chechnya, Clinton plans to warn Yeltsin that Russia's policy of flattening the breakaway region in order to strike at terrorists is a "dead end," and that external mediation is required. But Yeltsin no longer regards Clinton a policy adviser in good standing...
Havana and Washington got their first glimpse Tuesday of what a post-embargo Cuba may look like. Fidel Castro donned a business suit to revel in the presence of the heads of state of Spain, Portugal and 14 Latin American countries at an Ibero-American summit on the once-isolated island. But many of his guests pointedly chastised the Cuban leader over human rights, and held meetings with the dissidents Castro had tried to keep under the carpet. In spite of that, the summit was clearly a diplomatic triumph for the aging Cuban strongman, because it represented an explicit repudiation...
...Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue and Illinois's Republican governor George Ryan have both made strong appeals last month to end the embargo, while Missouri GOP senator John Ashcroft is currently promoting a bill to ease restrictions on sales of food and medicine to Cuba. The Ibero-American summit will likely fuel the anti-embargo argument, since the event has clearly provided a boon for the anti-Castro opposition inside Cuba, and whatever kudos Castro has accrued from the arrival of foreign dignitaries has been tempered by their challenges to his human rights record. Comparisons with the U.S.-China...
Western political pressure is mounting on Moscow to reach a political settlement and avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Chechnya. The issue is set to dominate next week's summit of the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which will be attended by President Clinton. "Western pressure may actually stiffen the resolve of the generals to fight on," says Meier. "The last thing they want is to be seen to be caving into the West." But some in the military hierarchy are also wary of being caught in the potential quagmire of a guerrilla war in a Chechen...
...mountain's uppermost point was so small and precarious that it could accommodate only one person at a time. So I shivered on a ledge in the subzero breeze and waited for my partners, first Alex and then Conrad, to climb the final 20 ft. to the summit. We'd been on the move for 14 hours. My back hurt, and I had lost all feeling in my toes. But as my eyes wandered across the frozen vastness of Queen Maud Land, a sense of profound contentment radiated from somewhere beneath my solar plexus. There was nowhere on earth that...