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After attending his mother's funeral in Arkansas, President Clinton proceeded with his first major European tour since taking office. He will attend a NATO summit meeting in Brussels during which he is expected to defend his plan that permits only very limited association with NATO for former Soviet-bloc countries. Clinton will also visit Moscow, where he will encourage Russian President Boris Yeltsin to carry on with his economic reforms but be more mindful of those who are suffering under them...
...just one. Although the latest revolution unfolded peacefully at the ballot box, the aftershocks were no less unsettling than those triggered by the Bolshevik coup. Ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a golden-tongued demagogue who has been compared with Adolf Hitler, looked to have swept enough votes to establish a powerful bloc for his neofascist party in the State Duma, the lower house of the new Russian parliament...
...could ban the imports entirely, as George Bush did with larger assault rifles after another California man used one to spray a schoolyard in 1989. In spite of these measures, law-enforcement authorities report a sizable increase in imported firearms recently, especially from China and former Soviet bloc nations seeking to keep their defense industry at work by churning out small arms. "They bring in hard currency, and we're probably the only country in the world that has a large civilian market in handguns," says firearms-bureau spokesman Jack Killorin...
...Russian democrats were as concerned about a referendum victory. Radical economist Grigori Yavlinsky, leader of a reform bloc ranked second in public-opinion polls, believes a popularly elected legislature would be empowered to amend and ratify the constitution if it failed at the ballot box. But this is precisely the scenario Yeltsin wants to avoid. Since the new batch of deputies elected this week is likely to be an unwieldy mix of democrats, centrists, communists and nationalists, he could find himself confronted by a new parliament just as intent on whittling down his powers as the one he dissolved. Without...
APEC as a whole shied away from a suggestion that it monitor regional human- rights abuses, along with any notion that it should move toward trade-bloc status. The group even rejected a change in its awkward name -- Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans calls it "four adjectives in search of a noun" -- rather than label itself a "community." Reason: the term suggests the kind of integration that Asian nations say they want to avoid. And besides, said Hong Kong Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod, "People are a little wary of possibly being dominated by the U.S. I think the majority view...