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...Commander in Chief and shouted catcalls. Last week Clinton denied he had put a commercial gold rush ahead of veterans' concerns, which a top aide insisted were his "sole consideration." The logic was that Vietnam needed a show of good faith by the U.S. to ensure settling the MIA issue permanently...
...Thursday of last week, President Clinton closed another wound in the American body politic by declaring an end to the 19-year ban on trade with Vietnam. Citing increased cooperation from the Vietnamese on the matter of American MIA's, Clinton, who personally avoided service in the war, became the man responsible for officially ending...
...RAIN TURNED TO SLEET IN WASHINGton last Thursday, a young man stood silently on the sidewalk next to a White House gate, balancing a flagpole from which hung a black banner inscribed POW-MIA. He is a frequent and unnecessary reminder to Bill Clinton that the psychological and emotional turf of a war that took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans is dangerous terrain to a President who did not serve...
...Simmons, Yuri Zarakhovich, Felix Rosenthal Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer, Ron Ben-Yishai, Jamil Hamad Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez Rio de Janeiro: Ian McCluskey...
...dislike no matter how nasty he is being. During a typical show, he'll also play any number of wild supporting characters, as broadly drawn as a third-grader's art-class project. An auto mechanic who won't stop singing soul songs. A runny-nosed child with an MIA mother. An extension-wearing, finger-snapping round-the-way girl from across the hall. Martin is a post- Cosby Show farce, a show for the I-am-not-a-role-model Age of Charles Barkley, a comic romp that puts the "id" back in video. Says Lawrence...