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...bearded one. But Castro is a big man, and can't easily be ignored, so the big question that has the press corps buzzing is "What will Fidel do next?" He blew into Manhattan at midday on Tuesday and went straight into meetings with China's President Jiang Zemin and with Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed. Later that night, he met some unspecified American "friends" at Cuba's U.N. mission. In the chaotic swirl of some 700 bilateral meetings around the city over the next two days, nobody knows quite what Castro is planning for the night of Clinton...
Fidel Castro arrived at JFK Airport in the middle of lunch hour and snarled traffic into midtown Manhattan. Shortly before, China's President Jiang Zemin had arrived and headed for the Waldorf Astoria, where President Clinton is also staying. But that posed a problem, because Castro and the Chinese president had planned to hold bilateral talks. If the meeting was held at the Waldorf, you could have U.S. and Cuban delegates crossing paths and some words. So the meeting was moved (in secret) to Cuba's fortresslike U.N. mission on Lexington Avenue...
...Washington insisted it needed to build its National Missile Defense program by 2005 in order to counter a purported threat from North Korea; Putin's out to show that there is no North Korean threat. Not only that, earlier this week he visited Beijing, where he and President Jiang Zemin vowed to fight together against a U.S. missile program they believe undermines their security. And the energetic Russian leader has already sewn up much of Western Europe in his campaign to urge Washington to put the kibosh on the system...
...November 1997 An estimated 5,000 demonstrators swarm the Harvard Square area as Chinese President Jiang Zemin speaks in Sanders Theatre...
President Jiang Zemin mediates between these factions, and his statements and actions are often interpreted as a reflection of the balance of power. A little over a week ago, Jiang called for the strengthening of the role of Communist party cells in privately owned businesses - the latest in a series of statements and decisions over the past year that signal a growing caution over making a great leap forward on the path to capitalism. Last August, Jiang called for a revitalization - rather than privatization - of state-owned enterprises, stressing they'd play an integral role in China's future...