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GEORGE BUSH WILL BEQUEATH BILL CLINTON MESSES IN BOSnia, Iraq and Somalia, but the outgoing President hopes to have one situation pretty well cleaned up. Before leaving office, he may be able to lift the long-standing economic embargo against VIETNAM. Behind-the-scenes negotiations are under way, and Vietnam has already made commitments on some remaining critical issues, including access to POW/MIA records. Dissolving the embargo would enable U.S. companies to compete in the Vietnamese market with the Japanese and Australians already doing business there. If Clinton wants it, diplomatic relations could resume within six months...
Bush's closing flurry will bequeath Clinton quite as much new business as it removes from the agenda -- maybe more. Even if a partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Somalia starts by Jan. 20, as Pentagon officials still hope, it will be up to Clinton to determine when and how the rest can be pulled out without letting Somalia sink back into the starvation, looting and clan warfare that the American and other Western soldiers were sent to relieve...
...times like these, I yearn for a princely fortune in order not to bequeath it to my alma mater. Sanford Gifford...
...singer Eddie Fisher. "I was born of a golden womb," says Carrie. People like Lucille Ball and Jimmy Stewart used to come for dinner. Candice Bergen was always at their house because her best friend was the family baby-sitter. Unfortunately, father Eddie just barely had time to bequeath his eyes and voice to Carrie and sire her brother Todd before he gallivanted off with famous film fatale Elizabeth Taylor. The whole affair ended badly and publicly. As her legacy from the broken fairy-tale family, Carrie got a wounded heart and an emotional predilection for "short Jewish men -- preferably...
That's the kind of mental snapshot visitors carry away with them after meeting General Wojciech Jaruzelski. It is also the framed portrait that Poland's President, who last week announced his willingness to step down, will bequeath to the nation. Easily his country's most controversial postwar political figure, Jaruzelski, 67, will leave office even more of an enigma than when he first came to power nearly a decade...