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President Clinton -- while pitching most of his remarks to domestic politics -- kicked off the 34-nation Summit of the Americas in Miami with a pitch for Western-hemisphere nations to join a giant free-trade zone by 2005. "This is a magic moment -- let us seize it," Clinton told an assembly of summit organizers and U.S. and foreign business leaders, stressing that the "partnership for prosperity" would create jobs at home. U.S. trade officials admit that such a trade zone is most valuable in U.S. political terms for the moment, since draft language doesn't call for final international negotiations...
European Union leaders, meanwhile, convened their own summit in Essen, Germany, to announce plans to open their trading bloc gradually to the former Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe. The move mirrors events on the other side of the Atlantic: If the all-American trade accord goes through, the U.S. is expected to depend far more on South America than on Europe or Japan in the next century...
...apart, today's historic meeting was described as calm and constructive and another date was set for December 19. Sinn Fein's delegation leader Martin McGuiness said, "We've made a beginning. It should have happened a long time ago." U.K. Prime Minister John Major, from a European summit in Germany, cautioned though that these sessions are only "talks about talks, but they do lead to getting Sinn Fein into a proper constituent process." Clear from today's exchange of formal statements: One of the biggest obstacles on the road to peace will be mutual disarmament...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher veered off from the European security summit in Budapest to meet with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, resuming the Administration's attempt to force a Mideast peace breakthrough. In a four-and-a-half-hour meeting, Christopher pressed Assad to make a public declaration denouncing terrorism, but merely received a promise from Assad that he'd think about it. The Secretary then shuttled to Jerusalem, where Israeli leaders blamed Syria for the deadlocked peace talks and expressed little hope that Christopher's trip would jar loose an impasse over the disputed Golan Heights. (Also...
...police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler, on the eve of his 75th birthday, is preparing for a possibly historic summit with President Kennedy -- President Joseph Kennedy Sr., that...