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Bill Clinton didn't expect to convince Boris Yeltsin that expanding NATO eastward, toward Russia, is a great idea. The newly chipper Russian President arrived at last week's Helsinki summit trailing a string of sound-bite warnings that he would not budge. Clinton did hope, though, that a friendly reunion, with both Presidents dropping jovial one-liners about ailments and recuperation, could establish a mood for compromise. On the night before the meeting, Clinton, recovering from knee surgery, had trouble sleeping--he heard a loud banging above the ceiling of his room. The next day he joked with Yeltsin...
Albright likes to wear the eagle and top hat on her trips abroad as symbols of American power and glory. She most recently wore both when she met Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Moscow in February. The goat is the gift of an admiral at Annapolis, who sent it to her after he read accounts that the brutal Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic had apparently named one of his goats after the then U.N. ambassador. In 1994, when reports circulated in the Iraqi press calling Albright a serpent, she decided to wear the snake pin--in lieu of a name...
...Russia's most coveted demands, a document legally binding the country to NATO, Primakov left unsatisfied. Emerging from the White House, he stated flatly that "Russia will not change its position on NATO" and continued his insistence that the U.S. make concessions. Speaking on Russian television, Boris Yeltsin echoed Primakov's hard line, suggesting that an expanded NATO could lead to renewed Cold War tensions. "Our diplomats have made enough concessions to the United States," he said. "Now it's the U.S. turn to move in order to preserve our partnership." Although the Administration had moved during weekend meetings between...
...Russia's most coveted demands, a document legally binding the country to NATO, Primakov left unsatisfied. Emerging from the White House, he stated flatly that "Russia will not change its position on NATO" and continued his insistence that the U.S. make concessions. Speaking on Russian television, Boris Yeltsin echoed Primakov's hard line, suggesting that an expanded NATO could lead to renewed Cold War tensions. "Our diplomats have made enough concessions to the United States," he said. "Now it's the U.S. turn to move in order to preserve our partnership." Although the Administration had moved during weekend meetings between...
...Cmdr. David Wade, chief of staff at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, yesterday on the ability of President Clinton to travel to Finland next week, where he is scheduled to meet with Russian Prime Minister Boris N. Yeltsin. The President tore a tendon in his right knee earlier that morning in a stumble on wooden stairs at golfer Greg Norman's Florida home...