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President who restored full diplomatic ties to Hanoi. Today, concluding an angry debate among the President's aides, Clinton's national security advisers drafted a formal order that he is expected to sign next week -- just soon enough,TIME's Dean Fischerreports, for Secretary of State Warren Christopher to make a landmark visit to the Vietnamese capital after an Asian economic conference at the end of the month. "Given the President's own opposition to the war when he was in college, there was some fear in the White House that this risk was not worth taking," Fischer says...
Civil rights advocates have tended to follow this style of advocacy in recent years. The great free speech and civil rights cases of the Warren Court tended to cast rights in terms of one heroic litigant taking on a corrupt system and winning respect for an essentially negative liberty. The right not to be discriminated against, or not to be kept from speaking, were at the root of such great cases as Walker v. Birmingham or New York Times v. Sullivan...
...potent is Iran's variety of militant political Islam? To Bill Clinton and Warren Christopher, it is one of the most dangerous forces on earth. But listen to what an Iranian housewife named Hafezeh has to say. Earlier this month, just before the sixth anniversary of the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, she sat on a carpet inside his gold-domed mausoleum. Under her loosely draped chador she wore blue jeans and a bright turquoise blouse...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher has formally recommended that President Clintonestablish full diplomatic ties with Vietnam. Clinton is expected to make a decision in time for Christopher's July trip to meet with the Association of South East Asian Nations in Brunei. If he receives the go-ahead, Christopher will make a diplomatic stop in Hanoi. Although many business leaders support full relations with Vietnam,relatives of soldiers missing in Vietnam oppose the moveas long as the MIA issue remains unresolved. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), aformer Vietnam War POWwho has long supported normalizing relations, says he will offer...
...optimism . . . and put all peace efforts exerted by the international community in jeopardy," Syria's official government daily, Tishrin, wrote today.TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyersays the statement contradicts positive signals that Syrian President Hafez Assad has sent through diplomatic channels in the wake of Secretary of State Warren Christopher's shuttle diplomacy last week...