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The president met with
Russia's Foreign Minister
yesterday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In strained pre-sum-
it talks, President Clinton tried Monday to soft-
“ussia’s resistance to NATO expansion. Russ-
ii President Boris Yeltsin called in Moscow for
rtherU.S. concessions and said, “I don’t want
urn to the Cold War.”
The points Clinton took up with Foreign Min-
;erYevgeny Primakov included assurances that
expanded NATO would pose no threat to
cow and promises of a greater voice for Rus-
ain the economic conferences of the world’s
iven leading industrialized democracies.
While Russia cannot stop the alliance from
viting former Soviet allies this summer to join,
Yeltsin and Primakov signaled they re
opposed in principle. “We can’t move
ly further,” Yeltsin said in Moscow.
And emerging from an hour-long session with
linton, hobbled by a knee injury, in a White
sitting room, Primakov said: “Russia will
change its position on NATO.”
The differences will carry over to Clinton’s
immit with Yeltsin in Helsinki, Finland, on
idj hursday and, White House press secretary Mike
IcCurry said, “There are likely to continue to be
isagreements after the summit.”
Primakov planned to fly home Monday night
ndto report to Yeltsin, who told American, Russ-
pii in and Finnish television networks in Moscow:
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“I don’t want a return to the Cold War, and nei
ther do our people, but to avoid that there must
be equal conditions. I’m for a multi-polar world,
not one in which the United States will com
mand everyone else.”
Urging Clinton to make concessions, Yeltsin
said: “Our diplomats have made enough con
cessions to the United
States. We can’t move any
further. Nowit’s the U.S. turn
to move in order to preserve
our partnership.”
Despite the rhetoric, the
two sides are working on a new
relationship between Moscow
and NATO, one that McCurry
said would be made politically
but not legally binding.
If a charter can be complet
ed, that probably would be done
at a gathering of Clinton and European leaders in Eu
rope, probably in the Netherlands in late May.
Primakov said Russia would not drop its in
sistence that the charter have “a binding charac
ter,” but that Russia understood NATO was a real
force and would like to have a normal relation
ship with the alliance.
Talking to reporters in the White House drive
way, Primakov said it was “a great honor” to be
received by Clinton during his convalescence
from knee surgery and while he was not disposed
to receive foreign visitors.
During their talks in the Yellow Room in the
second-floor residential quarters, Clinton and
Primako sat in armchairs. The president’s knee
Clinton
was in a brace, the result of a wrenching accident
and surgery last Friday. He moved his leg back
and forth gingerly a few times.
Among the concessions on the agenda for Clin
ton’s talk with Primakov were the charter to give
Russia more participation in NATO proceedings,
joint peacekeeping operations like the one in
Bosnia and promises that NATO would not deploy
Western troops in substantial numbers on the soil
of new members for the foreseeable future.
Last week, Yeltsin said Clinton had told him
on the telephone that “the U.S. is interested in
compromise and so am I.”
NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana, the
chief negotiator for the West, is working on a text
and his made several trips to Moscow for Krem
lin conference. Primakov, meanwhile, met with
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Satur
day, Sunday and before the foreign minister
called at the White House. He met with Defense
Secretary William Cohen on Sunday.
State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns
called the Albright-Primakov sessions "intensive,
cooperative and, in some case, productive.”
He acknowledged “we are working on some
language” to formalize new Russian ties to NATO,
although the administration has flatly rejected
Russia’s demand for a legally binding document.
Clinton’s knee injury, surgery and post-oper
ation pain caused him to delay the start of the
two-day meeting with Yeltsin in Helsinki from
Wednesday to Thursday. Ironically, the summit
was shifted to Finland from the United States to
accommodate Yeltsin, who had heart surgery in
November and pneumonia in January.
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NEWYORK (AP) — Its cameras
canning the sunny Havana skyline
md the brilliant blue harbor, CNN
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news organization in 27 years to
hbrni, s 0 pen a bureau in Cuba.
Correspondent Lucia Newman’s
Jli a Iauiy “ first report, on the impact of Amer-
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broadcast Monday afternoon.
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operate permanently in Cuba.
So far CNN is the only organiza
tion to get permission from the
Cuban government to open a bu
reau. The AP which was expelled
from the island in 1969, is continu
ing discussions with the Cubans.
Cuba has frequently granted
American reporters visas to visit the
island, usually for about a week.
The Cuban government has as
sured CNN it would not censor its
reports, Newman said. Her initial
story reported that the economic
restrictions were hurting more than
the Cuban government has admit
ted and less than some Americans
had hoped.
The London-born Newman is a
veteran Latin American reporter
with previous CNN assignments in
Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua and Pana
ma. She has also reported for CNN
from Cuba on a temporary visa.
Living in Cuba should enable her
to give CNN viewers a better sense
of what it is like for residents of the
country, Newman said in a tele
phone interview.
“It’s the last com
munist country in
this hemisphere
and it still has an
enigma about it.”
Lucia Newman
CNN correspondent
“It is definitely the most exciting
country for any journalist covering
Latin America to cover,” she said.
“It’s the last communist country in
this hemisphere and it still has an
enigma about it.
“What I most want to do is to
show Cuba for what it is — a coun
try that has a lot of things to it be
sides the Cold War with the United
States and beyond Fidel Castro,”
she said.
For example, she wants to exam
ine the country’s housing shortage
and the effect it has on Cuba’s high
divorce rate.
Newman groaned when asked
about the living situation for her
husband, a free-lance journalist,
and two daughters. They are still in
a hotel room.
A five-person crew is stationed
with her at the bureau in the Ha
vana Libre Hotel, formerly the
Hilton. Newman is busy trying to
furnish the office in a city where
supplies are short; she is using a
hotel coffee table until a desk can
be delivered.
“Even the best-laid plans are dif
ficult to execute here,” she said.
Defense says Beckwith denied speedy trial
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Prosecutors stalled
or three decades, until a new social climate
jave them a better chance of victory, before
etrying Byron De La Beckwith in the slaying of
Ti® 'JAACP activist Medgar Evers, defense lawyers
irgued Monday.
Beckwith’s lawyers made that argument be-
ore the Mississippi Supreme Court in asking
hat his conviction be overturned.
Beckwith, a 76-year-old white supremacist, was
onvicted in 1994 of murdering the civil rights
eaderin 1963. Beckwith is serving a life sentence.
IWo all-white, all-male juries deadlocked at his
irst two trials in 1964.
Evers, the Mississippi field secretary for the
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, was shot in his driveway by a
sniper. Beckwith insisted he was 90 miles away
at the time.
The effort to bring Beckwith to justice was de
scribed in a recent movie, Ghosts of Mississippi.
The defense said Beckwith was denied a
speedy trial twice: between 1964 and 1969,
when prosecutors decided against a third trial,
and between 1969 and 1990, when Beckwith
was re-indicted.
During both periods, witnesses died, others’
memories dimmed and evidence disappeared,
said defense lawyer Merrida Coxwell Jr.
“It is very difficult to show what had occurred
between 1964 and 1969,” Coxwell said. “It is the
same to go back after 30 years. And that is not the
fault of Mr. Beckwith.”
Prosecutor Pat Flynn said the state re
opened the case because of new evidence, not
because Mississippi had become less tolerant
of racism.
“If that was so, they could have tried in 1975,
1980 or whenever,” she said. In terms of dead
witnesses or lost evidence, she said, both sides
were equally harmed.
The court did not indicate when it might rule.
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The moment of silence came at
oon, as the New York Shield-Pipe
hum Corps drew abreast of the re-
iewing stand.
“It took us back 150 years to that
iwful time in Ireland when one and
thalf million people died of starva-
ion unnecessarily,” parade chair-
nan John Dunleavy said.
It was the famine, from 1845 to
850, that touched off the great
vave of Irish immigration to the
United States.
Earlier, at a Mass in St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, Cardinal John O’Connor
said that to ignore “Black ’47,” the
middle and most severe year of the
famine, “is to be condemned to re
live it in one way or another.”
O’Connor also praised former
parade chairman Frank Bierne, who
died late last year.
Bierne led the successful court
fight to bar the gay group on the
grounds that the parade is a private
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