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...months left in office, Bill Clinton is desperate for a foreign policy triumph. Anything that helps push the Monica Lewinsky scandal to a footnote when historians write his presidency. Moscow won't be any help. Clinton flew to Russia on June 3 to try to convince its new president, Vladimir Putin, to accept an American missile-defense system combined with a treaty to cut deeply into both sides' strategic nuclear arsenal, but Putin wasn't a bit interested. So the President has now turned to the Middle East as his last hope for a foreign policy victory. ?He wants...
Geopolitics is a chess game, and President Vladimir Putin is a considerably more formidable opponent than his predecessor was. That much was clear Monday when Putin left Moscow an hour before President Clinton to stake out the high ground on missile defense in Western Europe. Some of Washington's closest European allies had, last week, expressed grave misgivings about Clinton's proposed missile-defense system during the President's visit, and Putin moved to widen the gap by unveiling his own missile-defense proposals while on a visit to Italy and the Vatican. Putin proposed the joint development...
Clinton faces tough opposition on two more fronts. This week he flies to Moscow, where President Vladimir Putin stands firmly against amending the abm Treaty, even though he would love to get deeper cuts in strategic missiles. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans threaten to torpedo any arms agreement Clinton might reach...
Ignore the spin - Bill Clinton's valedictory Moscow summit had all the warmth of a bargaining session between divorce lawyers. He and President Vladimir Putin failed to make any progress on the vexing question of missile defense, and the Russians signaled their displeasure with the U.S. president by failing to broadcast his speech to the Russian legislature on TV. "It was extremely important to the surviving pro-Western elements in Russia's political elite that Clinton get a chance to make the case for liberalization to the Russian public," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That didn't happen because...
...weekend wasn't an entire loss for President Clinton. Sure, he didn't get Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to agree to modifications in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that would allow the U.S. to build its Son of Star Wars missile defense system in Alaska. But nobody really expected that. There's little incentive for Putin to sign off on a deal that could throw his country into a new arms race at a time when Russia definitely needs more butter and fewer guns. And time is on the Russian side - Clinton would like...