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WORLD
Monday,July 2:
THE BATTALION
Clinton shuttles between summit
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NAGO, Okinawa (AP)—One was a
lovefest of farewell
toasts and pre
cooked commu
niques. The other is a
slugfest of grinding
negotiations and un
certain results.
President Clinton
raced between two
summits 7,600 miles
apart. One was on
Okinawa with smiling presidents and
prime ministers of the world's industri
al powers. The other is at Camp David
with grim-faced leaders of the Israelis
and the Palestinians.
Okinawa toasted Clinton as "a great
leader of the democratic world." Camp
David tested his mettle as a peacemak-
CLINTON
er, the legacy he so dearly desires.
"This is my last photo, so be serious
— do this right," Clinton said jokingly
as he posed for his final group photo
graph with the leaders of Russia, Britain,
France, Germany, Italy, Canada and
Japan. Maybe you will be back, some
one suggested. "Not under our Consti
tution," replied Clinton, who leaves of
fice in six months. "This is it."
All the leaders spoke warmly about
Clinton, expressing "immense affec
tion" as well as "our real admiration for
his strength and his leadership over
these past few years," British Prime
Minister Tony Blair said Sunday.
"We're all going to miss him very
greatly, indeed," Blair added.
The lighthearted mood in Okinawa
stood in contrast to the tense talks at
Camp David in Maryland. There, Clin
ton spent nine days trying to find
grounds for compromise between Is
raeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on is
sues inflaming a half century of conflict.
"It's really hard. It's the hardest thing
I've ever seen," the president said dur
ing the negotiations.
Clinton rearranged his Okinawa
schedule to fly back to Washington a
few hours early to refocus on Camp
David, where the talks have been on low
throttle during his absence.
He was to go directly from Air Force
One to a helicopter to fly to the moun-
taintop presidential retreat without
stopping at the White House.
Clinton told reporters here he could
not talk about Camp David because of
the news blackout rule. "Bulla
that they have not wasted thefe
said Sunday in Japan. "They'ver;
worked. And I'm very gratefulfoi
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not, they have tried," Clinton sai;
said that "whatever happens,li
they have continued to make head'
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Clinton's peace efforts and
nancial help from wealthy indi
tions to help underwrite the mull
dollar cost of any Mideast agreemc
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agreements expressing high-minddi
solve to help poor nations escapes
ing debt, combat infectious disease
prove education and join
high-technology revolution.
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Bangkok elects veteran politician governor
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A
blunt-spoken veteran politician was
elected governor of Bangkok on Sunday,
trouncing a technocrat in an election
dominated by personalities rather than
programs to remedy the urban ills of
this sprawling metropolis of 10 million.
Samak Sundaravej, 65, a 10-time
member of parliament who served as
deputy premier three times, captured
1,016,096 votes to 521,184 for Sudarat
Keyuraphan of the Thai Love Thai par
ty, according to official results.
Samak, who had pledged to work
on Bangkok's notorious traffic jams,
said: "I will do what I promised for
you people."
The victory by Samak dealt a heavy
blow to the new Thai Love Thai party,
founded by telecom
munications tycoon
Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thaksin is the chief
challenger to Prime
Minister Chuan Leek-
pai's governing De
mocrats in parlia
mentary elections
later this year.
Although Samak
is emblematic of the
"I will do
what I
promised for
you people. ”
— Samak Sundaravej
Governor-elect of Bangkok
lengthy public presence have kept him
popular. His victory humiliated an
"Anybody-But-
Samak" campaign
launched by critics,
who blame him for
encouraging vigilante
violence that accom
panied a 1976 right-
wing coup.
Sudarat projected
herself as the clean-
hands, new genera
tion technocrat that
old-style patronage politics gradually
losing favor among reform-minded
Thais, his grass-roots touch and
opinion polls say Bangkok's voters fa-
vor.As she failed to gain in opinion
polls over the past week, she appealed
to voters to make her the capital's firsl
woman governor.
Sudarat acknowledged defeats®!
day but suggested her opponent
votes were bought. Thai elections aif
notoriously corrupt, thougf
Bangkok's voters are considered lesi
susceptible to massive bribes that
those in the poorer countryside.
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Rattakul, chose not to run for a sea#
term despite receiving praise forhise;
forts to clean up the environment ait
improve the quality of life.
Officials said nearly 60 percents'
Bangkok's 3.8 million registered vottf
cast ballots.
Explosion destroys
Pakistanian market
News in Brief
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) —A pow
erful explosion ripped through a con
gested market in southwestern Pak
istan late Saturday, killing nine
soldiers and injuring 28 people, emer
gency officials said.
The explosion occurred outside an
area where military personnel congre
gate in Jinnah market in Quetta, the
capital of Baluchistan province. The
force of the explosion shattered glass in
nearby buildings and sent residents
running for cover.
There were contradictory reports
about the type of explosion. Deputy
Commissioner Akhtar Hussain Sayal
said the explosion was caused by a
bomb attached to a bicycle, while an of
ficial at a military-mn hospital said it
was caused by a rocket.
Police have sealed off the area. All
roads in and out of the city have been
closed, Sayal said.
At the military hospital, a doctor
reached by telephone said that three
wards in the hospital were packed with
the wounded. He refused to give his
name, but said, "it is like all hell has
broken loose on us."
At the civilian hospital in Quetta, Dr.
Shamim Gul said only one of the in
jured was brought there for treatment.
It appeared that most of the wounded
were army personnel, who would be
treated at the military hospital, she said.
Nasirullah, the lone injured person
at the civilian hospital, said he was
sipping tea in a nearby hotel when a
mighty explosion threw him off his
chair. The last thing he said he re
membered was something falling on
his head.
No one has claimed responsibility
for the bomb, the third in Quetta on
Saturday. The earlier explosions oc
curred behind separate police sta
tions and did not cause any injuries
or damage. Police were investigating
all three blasts.
There was no immediate comment
from the military, which rules Pakistan.
Within hours of the explosion
Baluchistan's Inspector General of Po
lice, Abdul Hai Qadar, was suspended
along with two other senior police offi
cials, said the state-run news agency.
The Associated Press of Pakistan.
The men were suspended "because
of their failure to apprehend the cul
prits behind a series of bomb blasts in
Quetta," said The APR
Chinese rivers
dry for a month
BEIJING (AP) — A persisting
drought has dried up one of Chi
na’s major rivers for a month,
threatening the economy of the
northeast, the state-run China
Youth Daily reported Sanday.
The Songhua River ran dry June
19 in Zhaoyuan county, a marshy
stretch of farmland 70 miles west
of Flarbin, capital of Heilongjiang
province, the newspaper said. It
added that people can now cross
the river by foot.
Across northern China, drought
this year already has destroyed 35
million acres of crops and left at
least 16.2 million people short of
water.
The Songhua feeds one of Chi
na’s richest grain-growing regions
and a strip of heavily industrial
ized cities. Two years ago, amid
China’s worst flooding in a half-
century, the Songhua inundated
surrounding countryside.
people, injuring three and
thousands to flee their homes,
government officials said Sunday
Up to 16 inches of rain fell Sat
urday, mostly in Seoul and Kyonf
gi, a populous province surround
ing the capital, Home Ministry
officials said.
All major roads and flights
been operating normally and one
section of a major railroad was be
ing repaired. But operations byha ;
of the nation’s 128 coast ferries
were suspended.
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Floods in Korea
kill 8, injure 3
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —
Daylong torrential rains caused
floods and landslides, killing eight
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strong earthquake shook a string
of volcanic islands off Tokyo or
Sunday, the Meteorologies-
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damage or injuries.
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