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FINALLY, PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON HAS UNVEILED a program not likely to be controversial: a $300 million initiative to spur vaccinations against childhood diseases. About half of U.S. two-year-olds have not received all their shots; in the western hemisphere, only Bolivia and Haiti have poorer records. The money will create a national system to keep track of immunizations and will enable public clinics to work longer hours and buy more vaccines. Clinton stopped short, though, of a $700 million proposal to guarantee free shots to all kids...
...work for most developing countries. "When you are hungry, when you lack basic services," he told an audience in the Philippines, "freedom, human rights and democracy do not add up to much." Instead, poor countries should promote savings, discipline, hard work and education, open the economy to foreign competition, spur investment...
...fictional Eastern European country and is loosely based on Bulgaria. Barnes had visited the country two years ago, just after the Bulgarians had ousted their dictator and had democratic elections for the first time. He was emotionally taken by the people of the country and the emotional spur of being there...
...along with, and even accelerate, this change in emphasis. The President-elect has repeatedly pledged to direct government support to such practical fields as fiber-optic communications, computer networking, biotechnology, robotics and magnetic-levitation train transportation. Vice President Gore will probably be in charge of coordinating federal efforts to spur technology...
Clinton vows to spur the economy first and cut the deficit later...