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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Perhaps aware of the excitement vacuum created by his arrival at the Asian Pacific Economic Conference summit in Bill Clinton's stead, Al Gore wasted no time in insulting his hosts, throwing U.S. support behind the "brave" protesters calling for Malaysian prime minister Mahathir's ouster. Malaysian trade minister Rafidah Aziz called it "the most disgusting speech I've heard in my life." But TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister says Mahathir's is one carpet the U.S. won't stop urinating...
...acres of the well-to-do pastoralists; and views of more exotic wildness, from the bizarrely sculpted sea cliffs of Cape Schanck to the Australian Alps. These mountains are low in comparison to Bierstadt's Rockies, but Von Guerard memorably recorded what he saw from the 7,000-ft. summit of the tallest of them, in North-East View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko, 1863. It is not, as Bierstadt's mountains tended to be, a made-up scene, and those smooth palomino flanks of brown grass and summer snowdrift between the granite outcrops are strikingly true...
Instead of insinuating that Clinton has used the Wye Summit to bolster his own historical legacy, we should unconditionally commend him for bringing about a landmark step toward peace that, according to all parties involved, would have been impossible without...
...Summit will likely be studied by diplomatic historians for years to come. After nine days of tense negotiations and high drama, Israel and the Palestinians signed an agreement last Friday that will push forward the heretofore stalled implementation of the Oslo Accords. Both sides made significant concessions, including the implementation of points agreed upon at Oslo as well as new ones, and both deserve the commendation of the international community for taking the brave steps necessary for a true and lasting peace...
...ailing King Hussein also deserves praise for helping to bring about this agreement. According to reports from participants in the summit, it was Hussein's emotional speech on Thursday that helped bring the parties close their final agreement. President Clinton, too, should be commended for devoting extraordinary time and energy to this process. Whether his motive was the resurrection of his legacy or a genuine interest in peace, or a combination of both, he deserves the world's gratitude for helping to bring the Middle East closer to peace...