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...most interesting part of the trip was when the group reached the top, Wang said. Climbers reaching the summit are greeted by the sight of a huge parking lot, part of the visitors' center...
...what they want," says TIME State Department correspondent Doug Waller, traveling with the Secretary in the Mideast. "But large gaps remain between the two sides on the core issues, and each is accusing the other of refusing to compromise." Albright appears to have convinced both men to hold a summit meeting with President Clinton in the near future, but the distance between the two sides on the issues of the borders of a future Palestinian state, the status of Jerusalem and the fate of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees precluded for the past 52 years from returning to their...
...during his Sunday phone conferences with Condoleezza Rice and other aides. On May 2, Bush summoned Rice, defense expert Paul Wolfowitz and campaign-policy director Josh Bolton to his new ranch outside Waco to nail down a proposal to announce in time to color this week's U.S.-Russia summit. (Before getting to business, Bush insisted on grabbing a pickup truck and taking the three on an off-road tour of his property...
...supervised as an army officer were among the military's dustiest. The suits he wears as a civilian are unmodish and occasionally ill fitting. Points of ceremony do not rate with him. He refused to take umbrage when the Syrians sent merely their Foreign Minister to a peace summit with him last December--or to be insulted when his negotiating partner would not shake his hand...
Ignore the spin - Bill Clinton's valedictory Moscow summit had all the warmth of a bargaining session between divorce lawyers. He and President Vladimir Putin failed to make any progress on the vexing question of missile defense, and the Russians signaled their displeasure with the U.S. president by failing to broadcast his speech to the Russian legislature on TV. "It was extremely important to the surviving pro-Western elements in Russia's political elite that Clinton get a chance to make the case for liberalization to the Russian public," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That didn't happen because...