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- Apr. 12, 1993: Vancouver Summit: Investment in Peace
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- NATION
- Vancouver Summit: Investment in Peace
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- <body>
- <p>Clinton and Yeltsin make economic rescue the center of their
- agenda
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- <p> Doomsday issues had not quite disappeared from the table.
- They lurked, in the form of two strategic-arms agreements yet to
- be put into full effect, as reminders of the cost of failing. But
- when Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin took their seats for
- Saturday's opening summit session, held in Vancouver, the throw
- weights on the agenda were denominated less in nuclear
- megatonnage than in dollars and acres of private farmland and
- doses of medicine and people-to-people exchanges. The two
- Presidents spent most of their time discussing how best to
- stabilize and begin mending the crippled Russian economy,
- largely through transfusions from the U.S. and other developed
- democracies that Clinton views as a form of post-cold war
- self-interest. Said Clinton: "The kinds of things we propose to
- do are likely to have lasting and tangible impact."
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- <p> Mindful that many Americans remain skeptical of aid to a
- former enemy, however, Clinton limited direct U.S. government
- commitments to $1.6 billion already appropriated--mainly
- technical and humanitarian assistance in the fields of energy,
- agriculture and health care. The U.S. President is also trying
- to get the so-called Group of Seven industrialized powers to
- coordinate and beef up their own direct aid to Russia. Then the
- G-7 will tackle heavy-duty measures to help stabilize Russia's
- ruble and supply vital imports. The group's summit, to which
- Yeltsin has been invited, is scheduled to convene in July in
- Tokyo.
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- </body>
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