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...FIRST WORLD LEADERS TO SEEK AN AUDIENCE with Vice President Albert Gore is, naturally enough, Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, who headed the World Commission on Environment and Development. Brundtland's mission, however, could not be more environmentally incorrect. She wants her buddy from the Earth Summit in Rio to promise that the U.S. won't take punitive economic measures against Norway, which plans to defy an international moratorium on whaling...
Internationally, the Administration can reassert American efforts to put some substance into the neutered agreements that came out of last June's Earth Summit. Gore has the opportunity to signal determination if he meets with Brundtland. If he were feeling sadistic he might quote from her Harvard commencement address last June, in which she spoke of the vital importance of international agreements, or recite the words of her report, Our Common Future, which cites American economic sanctions as a means of policing agreements on marine conservation. And he might pray that four years later, a successor will not appear...
Doug Bailey, the publisher of the Political Hotline, noted last week that some of the momentum of Clinton's election has been lost in the mixed messages of the transition. "The economic summit was part and parcel of their goal to define the mandate of the election," Bailey said. "But if you ask voters now what is the mandate, people could only guess." In the wake of his broken pledges, Clinton made a point last week of repeating his top five priorities: increasing growth and investment, reducing the deficit, reforming health care, instituting national service and reforming campaign finance...
...START II was only the end of a remarkable week for Bush. He flew to the Moscow summit from Somalia, where he had welcomed the New Year by visiting U.S. troops and the Somalis they are helping. One was a skeletal child in a refugee center who is nine, or so a camp aide told Bush, but has the size of a five-year-old. Essentially a photo opportunity, the visit still served to underline a major policy challenge that Bush will leave for his successor: the use of American military force for purely humanitarian missions in countries where...
...What came out of the economic summit here made me think that there might be more receptivity to it, and it might be something we can look at in the context of an overall program that seemed fair to people. But you've got to understand what most voters brought to this election, at least most people who voted for me. They brought a keen awareness that while most of them were worse off than they were 10 years ago, there had been a big divergence in income in America. Inequality had got worse, and all the tax breaks...