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...refused to freeze its settlements in the occupied territories guaranteed a lengthy chill in relations between Bush and Yitzhak Shamir. The only graceful exit from this impasse seemed a defeat of Shamir's Likud at the polls. Since that is exactly what happened, Bush took pains at a Kennebunkport summit last week to emphasize his warm feelings for Rabin, whose government has canceled Likud's plans to build 6,500 houses in the territories but will continue with 10,000 others. He invited Rabin to stay overnight -- making him one of only five world leaders to do so -- and introduced...
...that PRESIDENT BUSH is ill. Several have noted in telephone conversations with Bush that he vacillates and loses his train of thought in mid-sentence. Diplomats have observed that the President has become more stooped, his face often drawn and his complexion grayish. At last month's G-7 summit in Munich and the CSCE summit in Helsinki, the same symptoms were starkly evident. Says a French diplomat: "The questions they keep asking privately are, Do you think George is ill? How serious is it? And what is it?" "It was much more than fatigue or preoccupation with other things...
...know! I don't know! I haven't said anything bad. This is someone who used to be at my house every day. Although we haven't talked much in the past three years." In a recent phone conversation -- in show-biz terms it was a summit meeting -- Leno asked Hall, "So what's the problem? If you're going to do something, do it in a funny...
...with a car bomb that killed more than 20 people in the capital, the campaign has flared into a full-scale blitz. Last week bombs destroyed several police stations, a private research center and the Bolivian embassy. Though President Alberto Fujimori, who canceled his trip to an Ibero-American summit in Madrid, has promised a "battle without mercy," his police and army seem helpless...
...from the usual trudging pace of the Middle East peace process. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker whirled through the region, soliciting conciliatory gestures at every stop and obtaining at least more favorable rhetoric. The leaders of Egypt and Israel met in Cairo in the first summit between these only nominally friendly states in six years. The intent was to signal to the world that with a new, left-leaning Israeli government in place, the climate is ripe for rapprochement. Baker seemed to think so. Said he: "There is a new opportunity to move forward...