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...SETTING WAS MAJESTIC: A city of gleaming skyscrapers backed by magnificent snow-capped mountains, a Mediterranean-style villa perched on a splendid promontory overlooking the northern Pacific. The results of the weekend summit meeting in Vancouver, Canada, were inevitably less grandiose. Indeed, Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin hardly aimed at any readily measurable result. Dollars and cents may have been the language of discourse, but the effect was largely symbolic: to demonstrate that Yeltsin still has firm American support in his hour of trial, that Clinton is not quite an uninterested novice in foreign affairs and that the West...
Arriving at Vancouver in a driving rain that dampened his gray pompadour, the Russian leader pledged again to keep pressing for reform, whatever the opposition. "The Communists want to take revenge, to take us back to the past," he said. But "as long as there is President Yeltsin in power, then definitely my answer is yes, the reforms will continue...
...importance that the West must "do what's right" to help, and he added, "I think that the kind of things we propose are likely to have lasting and tangible impact." Although Clinton's aides have made much of the idea that they are supporting democratic reform rather than Yeltsin per se, after the two Presidents had their first working session, spokesman George Stephanopoulos reported that his boss admired Yeltsin as a "true democrat" and "a fighter who is not deterred by long odds...
...partners to pick up a bigger share of aid for Russian reform. That pitch will run into resistance. Tokyo resents Moscow's refusal to return four Kurile Islands, seized at the end of World War II. Clinton phoned Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa on Friday and told Yeltsin that he expected Japan to "play a constructive role...
President Boris Yeltsin...