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...SUMMIT: A Triumph in Tokyo...
...democracies, Bill Clinton acted the parts of statesman and campaigner in equal measure. While the Japanese indulged a fascination with his wife Hillary, Clinton courted a younger generation of Japanese politicians. In public appearances he urged the Japanese to open their markets -- a tactic that helped him cast the summit for his public back home as one more part of his jobs program. The meeting started on a promising and surprising note: an agreement in principle by trade ministers to cut anti-import tariffs on hundreds of items (although not the most contentious ones), which could lead to a resumption...
...supposed to be the domestic President, pushing aside foreign affairs to concentrate on righting the U.S. economy. So how come Bill Clinton scored better with foreign heads of government at last week's summit in Tokyo than with the barons of Congress or the public at home...
Well, partly because he prepared assiduously, phoning at least three fellow summiteers from Air Force One before landing in Tokyo and sitting in on so many late-night briefings that he pushed himself to the edge of exhaustion. (Or past it; British Prime Minister John Major cut short a one-on-one meeting at 11 p.m. Wednesday because Clinton was too tired to focus.) Partly because Clinton gave both government chiefs and the Japanese public a glimpse of the campaigner the U.S. has not seen since last November. At the opening summit session Wednesday, he worked the room like...
Clinton focused his agenda as he has not often done at home. Agreements to expand trade and to extend more generous aid to Russia, he told his subordinates, took precedence over everything else. He harped on the subject of employment, going so far as to call for a "jobs summit" at the meeting. Expanding trade, he insisted, was one way out of the stagnant employment that bedevils all members of the G-7 (for Group of Seven nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan...