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...F.D.R.'s Interior Secretary, but couldn't because it was public property. More important, the President worked hard to find Ickes a job after the State Department became worried he was radioactive. (He now works out of a Washington lobbying firm on the upcoming Group of Seven summit.) "If my purpose was to sandbag the President," Ickes told TIME, "I would have put on rubber gloves, put the document inside a plain brown envelope, tied a rock to it and thrown it through the window of a news organization...
...YORK: The North Korean delegation left an historic preliminary round of multilateral talks aimed at formally ending the Korean War with a firm 'no comment,' saying saying they need more time to consider the prop osal. The daylong New York City summit stopped short of full peace negotiations, but provided the opportunity for the U.S. and South Korean delegations to lay out details of a plan proposed last April by President Clinton and President Kim Young Sam of South Korea to hold peace talks between the two Koreas, China and the United States. Despite North Korea's reluctance, the very...
...news conference. "We are on the same side." Albright later met with a pale and wan Boris Yeltsin, and told reporters that the ailing President seemed "on top of his game," "knowing exactly what he wanted to achieve," and fully up to meeting President Clinton for a March summit in Helsinki...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a concession to Boris Yeltsin's continued poor health, President Clinton will travel to Helsinki next month for a two-day summit. The meeting, scheduled for March 20-21, was originally set for Washington, but was moved to a site closer to Moscow out of concerns about the Russian President. The trip will be Yeltsin's first trip abroad in nearly a year, after heart ailments and pneumonia in the last six months. Although the meeting is partially designed to show that Yeltsin can still perform his duties, the summit will be more than a photo...
Reiner says he became interested in baby brain activity three years ago during his own analysis. Now he is taking his case directly to the top. He has been urging President Clinton to host a Washington summit on the subject, and last month sat beside Hillary Clinton at a White House arts-award dinner. The next day she gave a speech that included a long section on early-childhood learning. "It's an important issue for the President to get on," says Reiner. "You talk about trying to fix the welfare situation. This...