Word: summiteering
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Market reform is in retreat as well. The day after President Clinton finished his Moscow summit, Yegor Gaidar, chief architect of economic reform, resigned. Four days later, Boris Fyodorov, the other major reformer, was purged from the government. The ruble is collapsing. The Prime Minister talks of a return to wage and price controls...
...American President had already practiced saxophone diplomacy twice before on his trip: once when he accepted a gift sax during the NATO summit in Brussels and then at a jazz club in Prague. The Russians handed him a third opportunity. Midway through an "informal" 22-dish dinner that included moose lips ("This was not a chocolate dessert," joked an American official), Yeltsin gave the President a five-inch blue-and-white porcelain figure of Clinton, one hand waving and the other clutching a saxophone. Suddenly -- but to no one's surprise -- a real one appeared, and Clinton rose...
While preparing for the summit and the opening session of the new parliament, Boris Yeltsin responded to written questions from Moscow bureau chief, John Kohan. It is Yeltsin's first exclusive interview with an American publication since the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...first European trip in office, President Clinton delivered a well- received speech in Brussels in which he stressed U.S. commitment to Europe and pledged to keep 100,000 troops there. Brussels was the site of a two-day nato summit, and the alliance agreed to Clinton's Partnership for Peace plan. The initiative provides for the possibility of former Warsaw Pact countries' joining NATO gradually over an unspecified period. The President toured Prague with Czech President Vaclav Havel and then arrived in Moscow, where he urged Russians to continue reforming their economy. In the Kremlin, Clinton signed an agreement with...
After attending his mother's funeral in Arkansas, President Clinton proceeded with his first major European tour since taking office. He will attend a NATO summit meeting in Brussels during which he is expected to defend his plan that permits only very limited association with NATO for former Soviet-bloc countries. Clinton will also visit Moscow, where he will encourage Russian President Boris Yeltsin to carry on with his economic reforms but be more mindful of those who are suffering under them...