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...Just look at him at a summit meeting; he is the colossus...
...Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, launching an international summit on AIDS in Paris, declared a "planetary emergency" and said all countries should "act without delays" to stop the epidemic. The subtext of his speech -- and of the World AIDS Day conference -- was that AIDS research dollars and supplies should be diverted to poorer countries where the largest number of AIDS sufferers reside. (More than 90 percent of AIDS funding winds up in wealthy nations, which have only 8 percent of the victims, the U.N. estimates.) The response: representatives of 42 nations signed a declaration aiming to improve access to health...
...election, Gingrich declared that in the next session of Congress, House Republicans plan to introduce a constitutional amendment to permit school prayer, an item that didn't appear in the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America." When reporters asked Clinton about it in Jakarta, where he was attending the summit of Asian Pacific leaders, he replied with a small surprise of his own. "I certainly wouldn't rule it out," he offered. "It depends on what it says...
Though halfway around the globe at an Asian economic summit in Indonesia, President Clinton wasn't neglecting domestic politics. In the wake of sweeping Republican victories in this month's elections, the President again let it be known that he hoped to cooperate with the G.O.P. bipartisan measures like welfare reform, the line-item veto and tax and spending cuts. Amid signs of Republican chafing in the Senate, he once more called on Hill leaders to approve the gatt treaty at the post-Thanksgiving lame-duck session of Congress...
...Medan court's timing probably was not coincidental, and it highlights the difficult balance Clinton is determined to maintain on his trip to Asia, which centers on a summit meeting in Bogor, Indonesia, of the 18-nation Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation group. Clinton's commerce-oriented policy pits his drive for good relations and ever increasing trade with the nations of Asia against his avowed concerns for human rights. As a candidate, he jabbed at George Bush's China policy, saying the U.S. has "a higher purpose than to coddle dictators and stand aside from the global movement toward democracy...