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Into this seething mess steps President Bill Clinton, whose two-day summit meeting with Yeltsin is scheduled to begin Tuesday. Neither President stood to gain much presidential luster from the meeting, since Yeltsin is politically moribund and Clinton is scandal-scarred and unable to offer the Russians serious assistance. U.S. officials fretted about the meeting until the last moment, wondering whether Yeltsin would still be in office when they arrived at the Kremlin, or whether he might quit as soon as they left...
...timing of President Clinton's Moscow summit was lousy, the reverse is true of his trip to Northern Ireland. Since the shaky summer of Drumcree and the shock and sorrow of the Omagh bombing, the province appears to be very much back on the track to peace. All but one of the renegade guerrilla groups have declared a cease-fire; Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has begun to renounce violence with all the passion of a would-be Nobel laureate; and just before Clinton touched down Thursday, news came through that Unionist leader and first minister David Trimble had agreed...
Call it red-button relations. After all that speechmaking on the need for economic reform -- most of it preached to the economists who don't need it, rather than the politicians who do -- the only real action taken by President Clinton during his two-day summit in Moscow was this: He and Yeltsin agreed to slash their nuclear stockpiles by 50 tons of plutonium each, and to share sensitive information on each other's missile launches. Arms control and early warning systems may not seem so relevant at a time like this, and 50 tons represents barely a quarter...
MOSCOW: Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin visited a Moscow school Tuesday -- an appropriate venue to open a summit at which the U.S. president will learn some hard lessons. "No matter what he says in public, Clinton is going to come away rather shaken from his meetings with Yeltsin," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "Until now there's been a lot of wishful thinking going on in Washington, but there's little chance that Yeltsin will show the necessary intellectual stamina to convince the Americans that he's in charge...
...outcome the West wants fervently to avoid. Although they disapproved of the devaluation, the Clinton Administration and the IMF say they will work with Moscow to get through the crisis and pursue broader reforms. When Bill Clinton arrives in Moscow on Sept. 1 for a two-day summit, he intends to tell Yeltsin that. But because democracy has begun to take hold in Russia, the country's wary voters will ultimately decide its course...