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...Harvard Chess Club planned the two-day event, which ended late last night. The tournament, advertised in national chess magazines, was open to the public and drew 110 adult competitors...
...president is in the midst of a two-day fundraising tour that took him to Cincinnati before his stop in Boston...
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...
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...
...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...