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THE DES MOINES REGISTER
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1997 7A
ASSOCIATED PRESS
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton greets mer-
American-backed loans at the Novo Pavlovka
chants Wednesday who have received Market in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
First lady pushes American ties
on trip to former Soviet republics
Hillary Clinton praises
Before dedicating the new univer-
"You are pioneers," Clinton told
sity in Bishkek, Clinton visited the
the Central Asian Conference of
contributions of women
bustling Novo Pavlovka market,
Women in Politics. "You are building
in winning democracy.
filled mostly with women wearing
a civil society that values the contri-
colorful scarves and carrying chil-
butions of women, and you are doing
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - A
dren to see what some said was the
so without the benefit of an older
statue of Vladimir Lenin towers
first famous American to visit them.
generation to guide you."
more than 50 feet high over this
There, the first lady came face to
quaint town, a symbol of 70 years of
face with success stories of former
Soviet rule.
Soviet citizens who since 1994 have
But Hillary Rodham Clinton came
taken small American-backed loans
to town to talk about progress since
and opened their own booths at the
the Soviet Union fell apart and about
market.
the new republic's future as a friend
Inside a nearby tent, the first lady
of the United States and the West.
met with six other loan recipients -
Just next door to the imposing
five women, one man. A mother of
statue, Clinton cut a red, white and
six said she made enough money
blue ribbon Wednesday to open the
from a business she started with a
American University of Kyrgyzstan,
$600 loan that she built a house with
established with U.S. government
the profits.
dollars.
"You built a house?" Clinton
The university, Clinton said, is
asked. "Very good."
"one of the most important results of
The villagers cheered as Clinton
the alliance between the two
emerged from the tent. Her next stop
countries."
was lunch with Kyrgyz Republic
On the second day of an eight-day,
President Askar Akayev at his palace
five-nation tour, the first lady made
south of Bishkek.
stops in three countries, all former
In Almati, Kazakstan, where she
Soviet republics, She flew from
began her long day, the first lady
Bishkek to Tashkent, Uzbekistan,
credited women with helping press
after starting the day in Almaty,
democratic values on their families
Kazakstan.
and communities.
8A
THE DES MOINES REGISTER
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1997
First Lady
touring
Central Asia
Women's issues and
human rights top the
agenda of her visit.
NEW YORK TIMES
Almaty, Kazakstan - Among
the many Kazaks waiting to meet
Hillary Rodham Clinton in this Cen-
tral Asian city today is a woman
named Akmaral Kalmyratobaeva
Three months ago, Kalmyratobae-
va, 29, gave birth — with her hus-
band, Marat, present in the delivery
room.
"It's a real revolution," said Emily
Jenkins, a Tucson lawyer who has
helped establish Kazakstan's first
Western-style women's health
center.
After a one-day delay in which
engine trouble forced her plane to
turn around soon after takeoff from
Andrews Air Force Base in Mary-
land, Hillary Clinton arrived here
Tuesday to begin an eight-day tour
ASSOCIATED PRESS
of five former Soviet republics: Ka-
Hillary Rodham Clinton is greeted by women wearing native COS-
zakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,
tumes at Almaty International Airport in Kazakstan Tuesday.
Russia and Ukraine.
In including three of the five Cen-
tral Asia republics on Clinton's itin-
indicating that 74 percent of Kazak-
not familiar with what in the West is
erary, the White House underscored
stan's 17 million people say they and
elementary women's preventive
the region's growing strategic im-
their families lack enough to eat.
medicine, like pap smears and self-
portance to the United States. Ex-
The survey, part of a fund-raising
examination of the breasts.
perts expect the Caspian Sea basin
drive by the International Federation
In Kalmyratobaeva, Clinton is to
to satisfy a large part of global ener-
of Red Cross and Red Crescent So-
meet one of the first women to go
gy demand in the next century.
cieties, says some Kazaks are at risk
through the center's prenatal care
Clinton's schedule is dominated
of starving.
program.
by human rights and women's issues
In this environment, the Women's
Kalmyratobaeva's entire prenatal
in this autocratic region, where ac-
Wellness Center is an effort to intro-
procedure was unusual because,
cess to preventive and prenatal care
duce Kazak women to basic
though in Central Asia a birth is a
is nonexistent or hard to find
Western-style health care.
major social event, typically no rela-
Women's health problems are en-
Women carry a large part of the
tive is permitted with the mother in
twined with the region's economic
economic burden here and have a
her hospital room - even many
crisis. Today, a survey is to be issued
high literacy rate. But they are often
hours after delivery.
The Trip of the First Lady
to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan, Russia and
Ukraine
News Clips
PRESE THE OF Mas PLURIBUS OF UNUM STATES THE UNITED LLS
November 9-18, 1997
BC-CLINTON-HILLARY
Hillary Clinton to tour five former Soviet nations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Rodham Clinton will take her agenda of
human rights and women's issues from the steppes of Central Asia to the snows
of Siberia during a five-nation tour of the former Soviet Union next week,
U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The wife of President Clinton is scheduled to leave Washington on Sunday
to travel to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Russia and Ukraine on a Nov.
10-18 trip that will carry her to some of the farflung reaches of Central
Asia.
It is an area Clinton himself is unlikely to visit and yet one of
interest to the United States, which wants to promote democracy and stability
and to expand its economic ties in a region rich with mineral resources.
U.S. officials briefing reporters on the trip said Mrs. Clinton would
stress her traditional themes: human rights, education, health care, the role
of women in society and their participation in the political system.
She is expected to make her points on human rights at all stops,
including Uzbekistan, which has one of the worst human rights records in the
region.
Asked if the issue would be raised there, one official replied:
Absolutely
... Apart from the first lady's trip, where she would convey the
message, we as an administration convey that message all the time whenever we
meet with them.
During her two-day visit to Uzbekistan, Mrs. Clinton is to make a speech
on cultural diversity and religious toleration in Bukhara, long a center of
learning in the Muslim world.
Mrs. Clinton's trip begins with a two-day stay in Almaty, Kazakhstan,
where she will visit a women's health center and deliver a speech on the role
of women in civic society.
She then pays a one-day visit to Kyrgyzstan and flies to Uzbekistan,
where she visits Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand, known for its elegant,
Persian-inspired monuments.
Mrs. Clinton will also visit two Russian cities generally off the beaten
track for foreign travelers: Yekaterinburg, the site of the 1918 execution of
Tsar Nicholas II and his family, and Novosibirisk in Siberia.
She visits Lviv, Ukraine for two days before returning to Washington on
Nov. 18.
REUTERS
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Hillary urges solidarity in Kazakhstan
ALMATY Kazakhstan AP, If
among Kazakh students who are
Kazakh capital 01 Alman
looking for ways to set up Ameri-
Under a brownish-pink blanket
young Californians and Kazakhs
can call themselves partners. so
can-style student councils in local
of pollution that nearh obscured
schools
towering covered moun-
can the United States and the for-
mer Soviet republics. Hillary Rod.
"You see how much 1 can do."
tains. Mrs Clinton stepped out on
from Clinton said yesterday
Mr Bakhmutov said
the tarmac about S 30 pm
Saving she had made the 16.
Mrs Clinton pushed the stu.
Waving. Kazakhs leaned over
hour trip from Washington to "pro-
dents to give these examples. as a
their balconies and lined the capi-
mote solidarity" with the emerg.
symbol of the possibilities between
tal's bleak streets as her motorcade
mg republics. Mrs Clinton opened
nations that once called each other
traveled to the school After the
her five-nation tour with a visit to
enemies
discussion. the youth group's ex.
Almaty School 55 There. star-
That IS the overriding theme of
ecutive director. Aliya Telemtaeva.
struck Kazakh student leaders ex-
Mrs Clinton's eight-day goodwill
gave her a T-shirt and a photo al-
plained how relations with their
trip to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.
bum of the members working on
California counterparts had
Uzbekistan and Ukraine as the in-
their projects
changed their views of the world.
dependent republics shift to free-
Victor Kam. a student at the Na-
market economies and democracy
The first lady's next stop was the
tional Technical University. said
President Clinton and the State
marble state museum modeled
through an interpreter that the
Department asked Mrs. Clinton to
after a "yurt." or native tent. The
make the journey to such little-
building housed an actual yurt.
Kazakhstan Association of Youth
Leaders and its partnership with
traveled places also to promote
made of wood and wool on the out-
the California Association of Stu-
American interests as some of the
side and furnished inside with
dent Councils helped him "learn to
republics consider striking trade
scarlet rugs and silks
be more tolerant" of those who are
and oil deals with such nations as
The traditional. portable home
Iran and Iraq.
of Kazakh nomads also featured a
different
Olyeg Bakhmutov said he be-
After a fire sensor on her air.
narrow canvas hanging from the
heved himself to be "a minute par-
plane malfunctioned and delayed
hole in the center of the ceiling A
ticle" incapable of helping change
her trip by a day, Mrs. Clinton be-
museum official said the shadow
the world But now the partner-
came the first first lady to visit
cast by the canvas told inhabitants
ship has helped build confidence
Central Asia solo with a visit to the
the time.
Senators cold to attempt
to bar use of secret 'hold'
ASSOCIATED PRESS
gone, apparently deleted by Senate
If nothing else. freshman Sen.
leaders
Ron Wyden may have proven his
Mr Wyden took to the floor Sun-
case when he tried to change a
day in a futile effort to get his pro-
Senate tradition that gives individ-
vision restored "This Senate se.
ual lawmakers authority to se.
crecy doesn't smell right." he said
cretly hold up bills.
"It doesn't pass the smell test to the
His attempt was swallowed in
American people"
secrecy
He said that on one recent day
Mr. Wyden, an Oregon Demo-
there were more than 40 holds. and
crat. has tried for more than a year
that for much of the day: there
to bring some openness to the
were people outside the Senate
practice of "holds," under which
chamber "simply trying to keep
one senator can anonymously get
track of all the revolving holds"
an indefinite delay on pending leg.
"I am concerned." he said. "that
islation.
at a time when the public IS so
Holds have become particularly
skeptical and so cynical about gov.
common, and controversial. for
ernment. that this use of the secret
nominations, with some pres-
hold simply feeds that cynicism"
The Washington Times
idential nominees being held in
Mr. Wyden's request that the
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1997
limbo for months because a single
language be reattached to the
senator. often in secrecy and with-
spending bill was rejected by Ap-
out explanation, has blocked a con-
propriations Committee Chairman
firmation vote.
Ted Stevens. Alaska Republican.
One California lawyer. Margaret
who said he sympathized with the
Morrow: has been waiting nearly
objective but didn't think It was ap.
two years for a vote on her nomina-
propriate to change a Senate prac-
tion to a federal judgeship, blocked
tice by law
by Republicans who dislike her
"activist" approach. The GOP
Actually. holds are not even part
leadership says she will get a vote
of the Senate rules. They grew out
early next year.
of the century-old practice of sen-
In September, Mr. Wyden and
ators, when they are unable to at-
Sen. Charles Grassley, Iowa Re-
tend a debate or vote, asking their
publican, succeeded in attaching
leadership to postpone action on
language to a 1998 D.C. spending
legislation. It has become the cus-
bill that would have required the
tom for the leaders of both parties
names of senators who put holds
to honor those requests and a re-
on bills to be made public within
ality that sometimes the holds be.
48 hours.
come semipermanent
But when the GOP leadership
Mr. Stevens urged Mr Wyden
reintroduced the D.C. spending
and Mr Grassley to persist in their
bill Sunday as part of a catchall
effort "I wish them success be.
package of appropriations mea-
cause I find holds to be very bur
sures, Mr. Wyden's language was
densome"
Hillary Clinton's Salute to the Health of Kazakh Women
By STEVE LeVINE
century.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Nov. 11 -
Miles
examination of the breasts.
Moscow
0
Mrs. Clinton's schedule is domi-
500
"This is something really new
Among the many Kazakhs waiting to
RUSSIA
nated by human rights and women's
said Zhamila Nugmanova, a loc
meet Hillary Rodham Clinton In this
issues in this autocratic region,
health care expert who helped organ
Central Asian city on Wednesday is a
Akmola
where access to preventive and pre-
ize the center. "It is scary to go
woman named Akmaral Kalmyrato-
natal care is nonexistent or hard to
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1997
The New York Times
Caspian
oncological clinics. But in the env
baeva.
GEORGIA
KAZAKHSTAN
find.
Sea
ronment of this center - bright an
Three months ago, Ms. Kalmyrato-
Women's health problems are en-
Almaty
cheery - women feel comfortabl
baeva, 29, gave birth with her
twined with the region's economic
coming."
husband, Marat, present In the deliv-
UZBEK
KYRGY2STAN
crisis. On Wednesday, a survey is to
be issued indicating that 74 percent
Ms. Kalmyratobaeva's doctor ha
ery room.
TURKMEN
advised that she should deliver
"It's a real revolution," said Emi-
CHINA
of Kazakhstan's 17 million people
Caesarean section. But the woma
ly L. Jenkins, a Tucson lawyer who
AZERBALJAN
TAJIK
say they and their families lack
has helped establish Kazakhstan's
enough to eat.
and her husband, who agreed to
IRAN
AFGHAN.
The survey, part of a fund-raising
tend birthing classes, sought to avoi
first Western-style women's health
center.
The New York Times
drive by the International Federa-
the procedure if they could, and ult
In Ms. Kalmyratobaeva, Mrs. Clin-
Providing modern health care to
tion of Red Cross and Red Crescent
mately it turned out to be unnece
ton is to meet one of the first women
women is a concern in Almaty
Societies, says some Kazakhs are at
sary, doctors at the center said
to go through the center's prenatal
risk of starving.
The entire prenatal procedure Wa
In this environment, the Women's
unusual because, though in Centr
care program.
sia and Ukraine.
Wellness Center is an effort to intro-
Asia a birth is a major social even
After a one-day delay in which
In including three of the five re-
duce Kazakh women to basic West-
typically no relative is permitte
engine trouble forced her plane to
publics of Central Asia on Mrs. Clin-
ern-style health care.
with the mother in her hospital root
turn around soon after takeoff from
ton's itinerary, the White House un-
Andrews Air Force Base in Mary-
Women carry a large part of the
- even many hours after delivery
derscored the region's growing stra-
economic burden here and have a
Mothers can sometimes be Sei
land, Mrs. Clinton arrived here today
tegic importance to the United
high literacy rate. But they are often
to begin an eight-day tour of five
lowering a rope from their hospit.
States. Experts expect the Caspian
not familiar with what in the West is
former Soviet republics: Kazakh-
windows to fathers waiting belo
Sea basin to satisfy a large part of
elementary women's preventive
stan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Rus-
with a bundle of supplies to be raise
global energy demand in the next
medicine, like pap smears and self-
up to the room.
1 Relidole's
By Annie Groer and Ann Gerha
YOU
Longtime journalist
Sarah McClendon,
whose cry of "Mr.
President, Mr.
President" pierced White
House news conferences
for decades. is
recovering at the
Veterans Administration
Hospital off North
Capitol Street from a bad
spill she took nearly a
month ago.
"I fell really hard and
dislocated a metal rod in
my hip." said McClen-
don. 87. She hopes to
move today to the VA
nursing home "across
the hall" for a few weeks.
The World War II vet
said she was "the first
WAC in the Surgeon
Credit
General's office."
A European magazine
specializing in dishy
stories about Princess
Diana and other
jet-setters reportedly
offered British au pair
Louise Woodward
BY SHAMIL ZHUMATOV-REUTERS
$160,000 for her story
after she was convicted of second-degree
story. or rights to my story. to the news
Kazakh girls in ceremonial dress
murder and sentenced to life in prison, the
media. I want to set the record straight. I
welcomed Hillary Rodham Clinton to
Daily Telegraph reported.
have done no such thing." Woodward said.
Almaty, Kazakhstan. yesterday, where
But Woodward. 19. speaking through
On Monday. Judge Hiller Zobel reduced
the first lady started her eight-day visit
lawyers. said she would not sell or give
the October conviction and sentence to
to five nations that once were part of the
interviews to Hello magazine or any other
manslaughter and time served.
Soviet Union. She learned that no self-
media outlet until all legal action is finished.
respecting Kazakh man ever leaves
the Associated Press reported.
You can reach the Sourcettes on the
home without a leather whip; later in the
"I have heard rumors that I have sold my
Internet at [email protected]
day she was given one of her very own.
DOONESBURY
By G.B. Trudeau
PEARL, I DONT KNOW IF YOU
I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, PRIN-
WE'RE STILL
HEARD, BUT DICK DIED OF A
OESS. I MISS NEDDY, WHO DIED
A TEENY BIT
SORRY.
HEART ATTACK A FEW YEARS
OF EXPOSURE, AND LEONA,WHO
COMPETITIVE,
MUST BE
OVERDOSED, AND HECTOR, ROSE
AGO. I STILL MISS
AREN'T WE,
THE SISTE
HIM TERRIBLY!
AND MANNY, WHO DIED OF AIDS!
PEARL?
THING.
11-12
FILE PHOTO MEA
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ABC NEWS
SHOW: ABC WORLD NEWS THIS MORNING (6:30 am ET)
NOVEMBER 12, 1997
Transcript # 97111205-j03
TYPE: PACKAGE
SECTION: NEWS
LENGTH: 401 words
HEADLINE: HILLARY CLINTON TOURS KAZAKHSTAN
BYLINE: KARLA DAVIS, MARK MULLEN, ASHA BLAKE
HIGHLIGHT:
FIRST LADY TO VISIT EIGHT FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS
BODY:
ANNOUNCER: It is Wednesday, November 12, 1997. ABC News continues, with Mark
Mullen and Asha Blake.
MARK MULLEN: Starting this Wednesday, halfway through the week, welcome.
ASHA BLAKE: In case you're just joining us, here are some of the top stories
that we're following for you today. Four Americans and their driver are killed
in Karachi, Pakistan, as their vehicle is riddled with bullets. It comes two
days after another Pakistani was convicted in Virginia of killing two CIA
employees back in 1993.
Iraq threatens to expel Americans if the U.N. Security Council adopts a
resolution condemning Iraq for interfering with U.N. weapons inspections.
Retired General Colin Powell says he will not run for president or any other
office in the year 2000.
And the pace of her tour picks up today, as First Lady Hillary Clinton visits
two more former Soviet republics. Yesterday, Mrs. Clinton made the rounds in
Kazakhstan. ABC's Karla Davis went along.
KARLA DAVIS, ABC News: (voice-over) After plane problems postponed her trip,
PAGE 25
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First Lady Hillary Clinton safely touched down in Kazakhstan on Tuesday Her
eight-day tour of former Soviet republics began with a stop at a public school
where she addressed a youth leadership group.
First Lady HILLARY CLINTON: The stifling architecture of Communism has been
swept away and in its place you have laid a strong foundation for open markets,
private enterprise and civil society.
KARLA DAVIS: (voice-over) That's evident in Almaty, a city of 1.5 million people
situated at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains (ph). Upscale boutiques now join
simple kiosks. Jeeps and Mercedes share the roads with Russian-made cars. But
with the fall of Communism also came higher unemployment and crime rates and
increased tensions between once dominant Russians and Kazaks.
There is renewed celebration of traditional Kazak culture since this country
declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. A stop at a national
history museum was second on Mrs. Clinton's itinerary.
(on camera) The race is on to determine which nations will form partnerships with
this oil-rich country strategically located near China. Many are putting their
best face forward, and right now the face the U.S. is using is that of Hillary
Clinton.
Karla Davis, ABC News, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
November 12, 1997, Wednesday, STATE EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; AROUND THE WORLD; Pg. 18A
LENGTH: 168 words
HEADLINE: AROUND THE WORLD
BYLINE: From Wire Reports
BODY:
Hillary Clinton opens tour of ex-Soviet republics
ALMATY, Kazakhstan- If young Californians and Kazakhs can call themselves
partners, so can the United States and the former Soviet republics, Hillary
Rodham Clinton said Tuesday. Saying she had made the 16-hour trip from
Washington to "promote solidarity" with the emerging republics, Mrs. Clinton
opened her five-nation tour with a visit to Almaty School 55. There,
star-struck Kazakh student leaders explained how relations with their California
counterparts had changed their views of the world. Victor Kam, a student at the
National Technical University, said through an interpreter that the Kazakhstan
Association of Youth Leadersand its partnership with the California Association
of Student Councils helped him "learn to be more tolerant" of those who are
different. Mrs. Clinton is on an eight-day goodwill trip to Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine as the independent republics shift to
free-market economies and democracy.
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November 13, 1997, Thursday
SECTION: LOCAL; Ed. F; Pg. 50A
LENGTH: 664 words
HEADLINE: Hillary Clinton voyaging to Asia in quest for oil
BYLINE: Holger Jensen
BODY:
Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Central Asia - where even her husband
hasn't been - is not, we are told, a sightseeing trip.
The first lady has promised to talk about democracy, human rights, education,
health care, freedom of the press and the role of women in three Muslim
republics - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan - before flying on to Russia
and Ukraine.
The White House also hopes she will quietly advance another key U.S.
interest: securing access to Central Asia's vast oil and gas reserves.
''We in the United States are working with these countries to foster free and
fair elections, to build strong democratic institutions, to help them live with
an open and inquiring press, to cherish civil society,' said Clinton.
''The point of this trip is straightforward: to strengthen the young ties
between our countries and to share ideas and experiences about ethnic and
religious tolerance, to talk about democracy and how important it is to be
nurtured.
All well and good, but will anyone listen?
The five Central Asian republics that once belonged to the Soviet Union
(Clinton is not visiting Tajikistan or Turkmenistan) cover a land area four
times the size of France, with rich natural resources but only 55 million
people. All are Islamic societies in which, bluntly put, the opinions of women
do not count as highly as those of men.
Their leaders are former Communist Party bosses, not democratically inclined.
They muzzle their press, rig elections and rule by decree. While eager to sell
their oil to the Western world, they do not appreciate lectures on human rights
or women's lib - especially from women.
If President Clinton truly wants to foster ties with Central Asia, they are
likely to ask, why did he send a woman to do a man's job?
Kazakhstan, the largest and most energy-rich of the Central Asian states, is
ruled by President Nursultan Nazarbayev. He enjoys virtually dictatorial
executive powers, hires and fires ministers and rarely encounters opposition
from a cowed parliament.
Uzbek students have
a lot to ask Hillary
Cheerful curiosity greets her on trip
BUKHARA, Uzhekistan (AP) -
The curiosity flows both ways,
How does the American first lady
Mrs. Clinton said. After 70 years of
spend her free time? Why didn't
Soviet rule, a tense arms race and
her daughter come to visit, too? Is
the Cold War, Americans too are
she proud of her husband? Any
looking past their monolithic im-
beauty secrets to share? And how
age of ex-enemies.
can it be that she doesn't speak
"I didn't have very much of an
Uzbek?
idea of what was happening in Uz-
"One at a time!" Hillary Rod-
bekistan in the Soviet era," Mrs.
ham Clinton exclaimed yesterday
Clinton told about 100 English-
as she visited students in this for-
Reuters
speaking students of Tashkent's
mer Soviet republic.
Hillary Rodham C' ::on accepts gifts from an Uzbek student wearing
University of World Economy and
The first generation of Central
Diplomacy "For an American, the
national costume c-ing her visit to the city of Bukhara yesterday.
Asians to come face-to-face with
Soviet Union just seemed like one
an American first lady on their
large mass, without much distinc-
23 million people are ethnic Rus-
ton's entourage packed boots and
home turf, students overwhelmed
tion among the various people."
sians. The official state language is
down coats, 50-degree sunshine
her with queries in both Bukhara,
The three independent repub.
Uzbek, the ethnicity of 17 million
followed the group from Tuesday's
a 2,500-year-old stop on the an-
lics Mrs. Clinton has visited during
residents. The size of California,
touchdown in Kazakhstan to
cient Silk Road, and the capital of
the first three days of an eight-day,
Uzbekistan declared indepen-
neighboring Kyrgyzstan and fi.
Tashkent.
five-nation visit to Central Asia
dence in September 1991 and
nally to Uzbekistan.
The frenzy reflected the curios-
have been less Russian and more
struggles still with economic, edu-
The traveling party expects to
ity of the region about its former
sunny than the severe, snowy im-
cational and human rights re-
leave the warm weather later in
enemy now that battle lines were
age pictured by Americans for
forms.
the week when Mrs. Clinton visits
erased with the fall of the Soviet
decades.
Instead of frigid air and blinding
cities in Siberia and Ukraine be-
Union in 1991.
Only 2 percent of Uzbekistan's
snow, for which many in Mrs. Clin-
fore ending her goodwill tour.
The Washington Times
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 199-
Stephen S. Rosenfeld
Hillary Clinton and the Great Game
There was a cute item in the paper
and South Asian influence between
build democracy and a market econo-
the ideology out of its conflict with the
this week about Hillary Rodham Clin-
Russia and Britain) in a 20th century
my, to aid in resolving local conflicts
United States. Indeed, the broader and
ton's visit in Kazakhstan and four other
way that leaves no losers, only winners,
and to serve the purposes of integra-
firmer the American position through-
territories of the former Soviet Union.
with Russia high among them, if every-
tion.
out the whole Caucasus, Persian Gulf
A picture showed her smiling with
thing goes right.
Integration is key. It means offering
and Caspian Sea region, the better the
Kazakh girls in ceremonial dress. But
Bradford McGuinn, a lecturer at
the benefits of participation in the
prospects of dealing with the hard
Florida International University. is one
International community to any coun-
cases like Iraq and Iran.
McGuinn sees three broad threats: a
FRIDAY. 14. 1997
The Washington Post
her purpose is not cute at all. With a
mission of personal and cultural pres-
who savors this vista. He suggests in
try that stays on the reform path in
ence, she is at the cutting edge of a
Middle East Insight magazine that the
foreign as well as domestic affairs. It
breakdown on the democratic capital
bold and little remarked aspect of
United States, with its embrace of
implies those benefits will be slow in
ist side, in Russia a return to belliger-
Clinton foreign policy: to bring distant
oil-super-rich Azerbaijan and with its
coming to others.
ency and a reach to reassert control
Central Asia and the Caucasus into
hedged new opening to Iran (and with
McGuinn's strategic bent allows him
over its southern periphery, and an
what Deputy Secretary of State Strobe
much else). "is moving to consolidate
to sort out the tangle of public and
Islamist surge in the pro-Western
Talbott called the "Euro-Atlantic com-
its domination of the Caspian and
private acts-by governments, corpo-
states of the region.
munity" when he laid out the policy in a
rations, Investors and others-that are
"As of now, however," he states, "these
Persian Gulf regions. This is a unique
speech last July.
moment, an era when the United
shaping American policy on this geo-
threats seem distant and manageable.
You could describe American policy
There exists (in the region) an intellectu-
another way: to engage a part of the
States, armed with an ambitious agen-
political frontier. He puts in context
al consensus, combined with the tangible
world that is an emerging strategic
da and overwhelming military and
Washington's showy reception of the
power of Western financial and military
crossroads and is soaked in oil, to take
commercial power, stands ready to
president of Azerbaijan, who was seek-
systems, which appears capable of over-
advantage of the power vacuum creat-
achieve a measure of geopolitical mas-
ing protection in return for oil. Also the
powering challenges through confronts-
ed by the Soviet Union's disintegration
tery seldom witnessed in history."
official decision not to oppose a new
tion or co-option. The joining of the
and the surviving pieces' multiple dis-
Geopolitical mastery? The Clinton
natural gas pipeline (Turkmenistan to
Caspian and Persian Gulf systems is an
tractions, to orchestrate the instru-
administration? Bradford McGuinn's
Turkey) transiting otherwise forbid-
audacious move, but the prize's allure
ments of American commerce, tech-
rhetoric takes him beyond any claims
den Iran. Also the American military
makes the bid inevitable."
nology. culture and projected power, to
that even the administration's warmest
and diplomatic presence as made evi-
Well, you may say, very nice but a
establish a dominating position and tie
admirers would make for its policy.
dent in force levels and arms sales in
young scholar's speculation. But it is
the region to the West, and to do all this
Aside from showing a becoming mod-
the Persian Gulf and in participation in
useful speculation: It reveals large pos-
without provoking a Russian bear
esty, officials are wary of feeding local
regional peacemaking and peacekeep-
sibilities that most of us have not
which is otherwise occupied at this
fears of being manipulated by Ameri-
ing and in military exercises.
picked up on. Meanwhile, we might
moment but will someday revive.
can power. It was enough for the cool
McGuinn believes it would be a real
pay a bit more attention to Mrs. Clin-
'In short: to join the "great game"
Strobe Talbott simply to list American
breakthrough if the new Iranian gov.
ton, who is over there putting a distinc-
(the 19th century strúggle for Central
policy objectives for the region: to
ernment in fact moderates and drains
tive face on American high policy.
The Reliable Source
By Ann Gerhart and Annie Groer
Snuffle Diplomacy: First Lady's Olfactory Tour of Uzbekistan
F
irst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was treated to a
Almost no Uzbeks smiled or waved as her motorcade
Stamped With a First-Class Honor
Mar tha Stewart moment yesterday in Tashkent as
rolled down heavily guarded streets, prompting a U.S.
an Uzbek government official blew fragrance from
diplomat to note that old Soviel habits die hard: Grim
"My heart almost stopped I was bowled
a small per fume bottle into a formal sitting room shortly be
citizens remain wary of a massive police presence. But
MAYA ANGELOU
over, poet Maya Angelou said yesterday.
fore she met with Uzbeldistan's President Islam Kartmov.
earlier the first lady met some admirers among 100
glimpsing her image on a stamp from Ghana
The scented air was part of the officially endorsed rosy
English-speaking students at Tashkent University of
She was among 12 African American writers
view of the nation that became independent of the Soviet
World Economy and Diplomacy, including a young
honored at the Hirshhorn Museum as Ghana
Union in 1991. Reuters reported.
woman who called her "gorgeous."
and Uganda unveiled the stamps, reports The
On her eight day goodwill tour of this and four other
Asked what she thought about U.S. tobacco companies
Post's Bill McAllister. The series of stamps from
former Soviet nations. Clinton saw a just-gussied-u
peddling their wares to Uzbeka, Clinton said she had no
the African countries was inspired by E.
health center complete with carpeting. chandeliers and a
opinion about the legal cigarette trade there or in
Ethelbert Miller, who runs Howard University's
pregnant woman lying on her back awaiting a sonogram.
America "other than to say, Don't buy their products."
African-American Resource Center
Also seeing their stamps for the first time were
NOW YOU KNOW
Charles Johnson, Rita Dove. Mari Evans and
June Jordan. "I have had two thrills today being
Christopher Reeve has agreed to deliver a
in George Washington University Hospital for the past
00 a stamp is one and to sit next to Rita Dove and
commencement address at the University of Virginia
seven weeks, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
Mays Angelou is the other." said Johnson, who
next spring The actor has used a wheelchair since he
He has been suffering from an ulcer and complications
wrote the acclaimed novel "Middle Passage
was paralyzed in a 1995 riding accident in Culpeper
following treatment for a back problems for three
Although the U.S. Postal Service has had
The Washington Post
County He spent several weeks at the university's
months, the Associated Press reported. He was treated at
GW this summer and released.
GHANA
African Americans on stamps before. none of
hospital.
these living authors qualifies for the honor: A
FRIDAY. MRF 14. 1997
Reeve has become one of the leading fund raisers and
"He's doing much better. He's out of intensive care," a
prime requisite for American stamp subjects is
advocates for more research into spinal cord injuries, but
family member told The Source.
Angelou and her Ghanalan stamp.
that they be dead for a decade.
he has resumed his career as well. ABC has committed to a
A poet. essayist and five-time presidential contender.
remake of the Hitchcock classic "Rear Window," with
McCarthy's most effective run was in '68. But he lost the
Reeve in the Jimmy Stewart role. The script is being writ.
nomination to fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey,
ten. and the network hopes to air the special sometime next
who was beaten by Richard Nbwn.
year, an ABC spokesman said.
McCarthy left the Senate in 1970 to campaign, write
. A dusting? Did somebody say
and lecture.
a dusting? The president heard
that snow rumor and hit the
links yesterday Wearing a wool
cap. gloves, a gray pair of pants, a
black turtleneck and a sweat
shirt. President Clinton played
18 holes at the Army Navy Coun-
try Club. In the foursome was
Rep. Nick Rahall II (T)-W.Va)
Former senator Eugene
McCarthy. whose anti war
presidential campaign helped
drive Lyndon Johnson from the
White House in 1968, has been
A glided greeting: The first lady receives gifts from an Uzbek student wearing the national costume.
A30
PAT
THE WASHINGTON POST
First Lady Voices Disappointment Over Americans' Indifference to World Events
By David Holtman
sickle. Clinton got a blunter reaction
But reflecting on the trip in com-
on the tour, which included Kazakh-
Clinton also met with Central
that is fueled by our Impatience
from a four year student
ments to reporters today. Clinton
stan. Kyrgyzatan and Uzbekistan.
Asian leaders and nudged them to
about what we would like to see
At a forum on women's issues.the
also acknowledged that the student's
Clinton said it was the description of
Improve their often dismal human
happen," she said. "what has oc.
YEKATERINBURG Russia Nov.
student asked Clinton Why do
question about American attitudes
Americans as Ignorant about events
rights records. But she said the
curred in those six years is rather
L5-Missing has two troot teeth.
Americans know so Little about Rus-
was a good one and that the struggle
overseas. "I wish more Americans
progress being made on human
remarkable."
Sachs Ivanov, 6. was a beacon of
sia? On a recent visit to the United
to au the ost-Communist vacuum is
would focus" on it she said
rights is not well understood in the
Clinton did not always get an
amiles today after first Lady Hillary
States. the student said, Americans
not a particularly hot topic back
Asked why Americans are not inter-
United States.
Rodham Claston embraced him and
unvarnished picture of life in the
asked her "if polar bears roamed the
home.
ested. Clinton said only that the presi-
"Americano are prone to be very
former Soviet Union, and she BC.
praced hrs singing of "America the
streets" here. They do not
There is no doubt that the end of
dent had given many speeches on the
Beautiful in Rusesan at a children's
impatient people, and I wish we
knowledged there were "obstacles"
The two acenes were apt book.
the Cold War led to the collapee of
subject. She went on to blame Con-
health center
would all take a step back and think
to doing 50 when leaders were laying
ends for a day in Clinton's five-nation
what you might call opinion lead-
gress and the news media for the mood
about what it would be like if we were
Anked for his reaction. the little
down fresh carpets and paint at
tour of the former Soviet Union,
era' interest in foreign affairs." the
of isolation at home. saying that media
boy refled his yrs skyward in de-
living in a society that seven years
every stop.
including Russia. Ukraine and three
first Lady said. There have been a lot
executives have told her foreign news
light and cluiched a picture book on
ago forbade us to practice our reli-
In Kyrgyzatan, for example,
Central Aman nations She devoted
of public opinion surveys that show
"doean't sell." She criticized "popular
gion. to have a free press, to vote to
fored animals. given to him by Rus
healthy children greeted her at the
attention to her favorite causes, such
Americans at all levels of society just
movies" that "paint pictures about what
No first Lady. Name Yeltsin
elect our leaders, to travel freely, to
airport, but according to a report
as children's health and women's
don't pay attention anymore. And 80
is going on in certain countries that are
own property and all the other totali.
broadcast later on Russian televt
A few hours later. at Urals State
issues. stressing volunteer programs
we were left with this kind of vacu-
very gripping but not necessarily accu-
tarian prohibitions
and then all of
sion, she was deliberately kept away
Technical University. in a three-story
and grass-roots efforts to overcome
um, which we had to refill and make
rate." She appeared to be referring to
a sudden. that disappears
from a filthy orphanage where chil-
central hall with ceiling frescoes
hurdles in the transition to free mar-
it of interest."
last nummer's film "Air Force One,"
"If you take a longer historic view
crowned by the Soviet hammer and
dren were been groveling on the
kets and democracy.
Asked what disappointed her most
par tially act in Rusela and Central Asia
instead of a short-term perspective
floor for crumbs.
Names & Faces
Defending Hizzoner
After 342 years by D.C. Mayor Marion
Barry's side. press secretary Raymone
Bain is stepping down She 11 stay in the job
until Dec. 31. then will focus full time on her
other gig Davis Bain & Associates Inc., her
public relations firm.
She u continue to represent entertainers
Boyz П Men and Babyface, but said she is
no longer Janet Jackson's publicist.
Bain. who refuses to divulge her age. has
been with Barry through prison, his 1994
reelection campaign and his current
diminished tenure.
What's the hardest thing she's had to
spin?
"I guess when the mayor took the trip to
St. Louis." she said, referring to Barry's
surprise two-week spiritual retreat in May
1996. There were 50 many rumors swirling
around. people were not believing what we
said. and the press was stalking him. That
FILE
PHOTO/ST
ROBERT
A.
RECOR-THE
TOM
POST
had to have been the worst."
Even though Barry press secretary Raymone Bain is resigning. she stands by her man.
But through thick and thin, she remains a
Barry loyalist.
the show while pregnant.
in a speech about peaceful coexistence. To
"Even when he's not running for office he
"For a brief moment I'm ashamed of. I
learn from you not only about your rich past
goes to eight churches a Sunday," Bain said.
considered having an abortion." she said
and rich culture. but also about the deeply
"He's a workaholic. He really truly loves the
during yesterday's tearful testimony. "I
rooted traditions of respect for religious and
city and the people in it without question."
considered it and I'm ashamed because I
ethnic differences which have enabled this
don't believe in it I look at my daughter
culture to flourish for so many generations."
A Pregnant Clause?
walking now and I'm ashamed."
She travels today to Russia.
Tylo was fired before ever appearing on
An actress who claims she was fired from
the Monday night series. She was replaced
television's "Melrose Place" for getting
End Notes
by actress Lisa Rinna.
pregnant testified yesterday in a Los Angeles
Rinna. Spelling and "Melrose" star
Actor Will Smith has gotten engaged to
court that she sued the show's producers
Heather Locklear are expected to testify
his longtime girlfriend. Jada Pinkett. The
after being driven to consider an abortion.
later in the trial.
Hunter Tylo, who stars in the daytime
star of "Men in Black" plans to wed by year's
end
soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful." is
"Leaving Las Vegas" star Elisabeth
suing Spelling Entertainment Group for
The Tolerance Tour
Shue gave birth to her first child. a boy,
wrongful termination. breach of contract and
eartier this week in Los Angeles. Shue is
pregnancy discrimination.
Hillary Rodham Clinton continued her
married to Davis Guggenheim, who has
Defense attorneys say producer Aaron
trip through republics of the former Soviet
directed episodes of "NYPD Blue" and
Spelling had the right to fire Tylo. 34.
Union yesterday. visiting Samarkand.
"ER"
because she could not play the planned
Uzbekistan.
-compiled from staff and wire reports
role of a "vixen" and "seductress" on
"I have come to learn from you." she said
by Dana Hull
The Washington Po
RDAY. 15. 1997
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SHOW: CNN THE WORLD TODAY 22:00 pm ET
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LENGTH: 402 words
HEADLINE: Mrs. Clinton Tours Russia
BYLINE: Jill Dougherty, Linden Soles
HIGHLIGHT:
Hillary Rodham Clinton tours Russia, seeing intimate places of the country.
Also, during the trip, she and Naina Yeltsin held a town hall-style meeting the
Main Regional Women's Organization.
BODY:
LINDEN SOLES, CNN ANCHOR: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is continuing her
tour of the former Soviet Union. She spent Saturday touring the city where
Russian President Boris Yeltsin spent his early political life. CNN's Jill
Dougherty reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mrs. Naina Yeltsin, wife of
Russian president Boris Yeltsin, wanted Hillary Clinton to see their home town
Yekaterinburg.
(on camera): This is the Pittsburgh of Russia. A steel making heavy industry
city in the Uro mountains. It's where Boris Yeltsin was head of the Communist
party back in the 1970s and '80s, and as Mrs. Clinton found out, it's also where
Boris and Naina Yeltsin first met as young students.
(voice-over): It happened at the Uro State Technical University, and that's
where the two first ladies held a town hall-style meeting with the Main Regional
Women's Organization.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, FIRST LADY, UNITED STATES: I understand there is a
legend that they may have first kissed behind one of these columns.
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DOUGHERTY: Naina Yeltsin wouldn't say exactly where it happened but did
confirm they use to dance on the top balcony.
(SINGING)
Mrs. Yeltsin also took Mrs. Clinton to the Barnum Center where children who
are born with severe facial and palletal defects can get comprehensive care.
Russian and American doctors perform reconstructive surgery on 1,500 young
patients a year.
(off-mike) have had nine operations since she was 2-months-old. More surgery
lies ahead. But she says she really likes the doctors. They are kind and
attentive. Her mother says the care is (OFF-MIKE) receiving has transformed her
little girl's life.
As she continues her 10-day trip through Russia and Central Asia, Mrs.
Clinton says she doesn't pretend she's getting a full view of what's going on in
the region. But trips like this she says are valuable.
CLINTON: I do get a chance to go into a lot of different settings that over
the years, I've learned to evaluate and assess I think pretty carefully.
DOUGHERTY: Americans, Mrs. Clinton says, tend to be impatient about change in
Russia. They should take a step back, she says, and think of how far the
country has come in just seven years. Something she calls quite remarkable.
Sunday, Mrs. Clinton flies to Siberia.
Jill Dougherty, CNN Yekaterinburg, Russia.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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SHOW: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS (6:30 PM ET)
November 15, 1997, Saturday 9:00 AM
LENGTH: 285 words
HEADLINE: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON VISITS RUSSIA, CALLING ATTENTION TO
CONTRIBUTIONS WOMEN CAN MAKE IN THE REGION'S CHANGING ECONOMY
ANCHORS: BRIAN WILLIAMS
REPORTERS: SUZANNE MALVEAUX
BODY:
BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor:
We are used to presidential trips overseas, touring hospitals, schools,
talking about partnerships, the rights of minorities. But if it's Saturday, it
must be Russia. And if her husband's in California today, this must be the
first lady. NBC's Suzanne Malveaux tonight on Hillary Clinton's road trip.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX reporting:
At the (unintelligible due to children singing)
Center in Yekaterinburg,
Russia, Sveta Polozova celebrates her 11th birthday singing to two first ladies:
Russia's Mrs. Yeltsin and Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was born with a facial
birth defect, a cleft palate, and has undergone nine operations. But through a
partnership between US and Russian doctors, Sveta and close to 300 children have
received reconstructive and plastic surgery nearly free of charge. Mrs.
Clinton came here to highlight the program, which symbolizes Russia and the US's
close ties.
Yekaterinburg is the heart of industrial Russia, 700 miles east from Moscow.
It is just one stop on Mrs. Clinton's five-nation tour of Russia and four
former Soviet Republics. Her trip is aimed at calling attention to the
importance of women's roles in shaping economic and democratic reform.
Mrs. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: I'm so happy to be here!
MALVEAUX: Earlier in the week, in Kyrgyzstan, Mrs. Clinton met with women
who had set up their bread and fruit stands, emphasizing the need for investment
and foreign aid.
Mrs. CLINTON: I think that we should be focusing on effective assistance and
investment that can make a difference.
MALVEAUX: And now that the structures of communism have collapsed, the first
lady hopes to make sure the women of the former Soviet republics are part of the
rebuilding. Suzanne Malveaux, NBC News, Russia.
WILLIAMS: When NBC NIGHTLY NEWS continues in a moment, how takeout has taken
off. Guess who's making the dinner.
U.S. Indifference to World Issues Concerns First Ladv
Clinton Blames Media Leaders Who Say Foreign News 'Doesn't Sell'
By David Hoftman
WASHINGTON Post Foreign
YEKATERINBURG Russia. Nov.
15-Missing his two front teeth.
Sasha Ivanov. 6. was a beacon of
smiles today after first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton embraced him and
praised his singing of "America the
Beautiful" in Russian at a children's
health center
Asked for his reaction. the Little
boy rolled his eyes skyward in de-
Light and clutched a picture book on
forest animals, given to him by Rus-
sia's first lady. Naina Yeltsin.
A few hours later. at Urals State
Technical University. in a three-story
central hall with ceiling frescoes
crowned by the Soviet hammer and
sickle. Clinton got a blunter reaction
from a fourth-year student.
At a forum on women's issues,the
student asked Clinton: Why do
Americans know so little about Rus-
sia? On a recent visit to the United
BY
AMATOLY
FRANCE
PRESSE
States. the student said. Americans
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, shares a laugh with Russian first lady
asked her "if polar bears roamed the
Naina Yeltsin while speaking to university students in Yekaterinburg. Russia.
streets" here. They do not.
The two scenes were apt book-
on the tour, which included Kazakh-
about what it would be like if we were
ends for a day in Clinton's five-nation
stan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan,
living in a society that seven years
tour of the former Soviet Union,
Clinton said it was the description of
ago forbade us to practice our reli-
including Russia, Ukraine and three
Americans as ignorant about events
gion. to have a free press, to vote to
Central Asian nations. She devoted
overseas. "I wish more Americans
elect our leaders. to travel freely. to
attention to her favorite causes; such
would focus" on it, she said.
own property and all the other totali-
as children's health and women's
Asked why Americans are not
tarian
prohibitions
and
then
all
of
issues. stressing volunteer programs
interested, Clinton said only that the
a sudden. that disappears.
and grass-roots efforts to overcome
president had given many speeches
"If you take a longer historic view
hurdles in the transition to free mar-
on the subject. She went on to blame
instead of a short-term perspective
kets and democracy.
Congress and the news media for the
that is fueled by our impatience
But reflecting on the trip in com-
mood of isolation at home, saying
about what we would like to see
ments to reporters today, Clinton
that media executives have told her
happen." she said. "what has OC-
also acknowledged that the student's
foreign news "doesn't sell." She criti-
curred in those six years is rather
question about American attitudes
cized "popular movies" that "paint
remarkable."
was a good one and that the struggle
pictures about what is going on in
Mrs. Clinton did not always get an
to fill the post-Communist vacuum is
certain countries that are very grip-
unvarnished picture of life in the
not a particularly hot topic back
ping but not necessarily accurate."
former Soviet Union. and she ac-
home.
She appeared to be referring to last
"There is no doubt that the end of
summer's film "Air Force One." par-
knowledged there were "obstacles"
tially set in Russia and Central Asia.
to doing so when leaders were laying
the Cold War led to the collapse of
what you might call opinion lead-
Clinton also met with Central
down fresh carpets and paint at
ers interest in foreign affairs." the
Asian leaders and nudged them to
every stop.
first !ady said. There have been a lot
improve their often dismal human
In Kyrgyzstan. for example.
of public-opinion surveys that show
rights records. But she said the
healthy children greeted her at the
Americans at all levels of society just
progress being made on human
airport. but according to a report
don't pay attention anymore. And 50
rights is not well understood in the
broadcast later on Russian telen.
we were left with this kind of vacu-
United States.
sion. she was deliberately kept away
um which we had to refill and make
"Americans are prone to be very
from a filthy orphanage where chil-
beinterest
impatient people. and I wish we
dren were seen groveling on the
Asked what disappointed her most
would all take a step back and think
floor for crumbs
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LENGTH: 266 words
HEADLINE: Hillary Clinton arrives in Lvov
BYLINE: By Galina Nekrasova
DATELINE: LVOV, November 16
BODY:
Wife of the U. S. President Hillary Clinton, who is making a trip to
ex-Soviet republics, arrived from Novosibirsk, Russia, to Lvov, Ukraine, tonight
after a six-hours-long flight. She was welcomed by wife of the Ukrainian
president Lyudmila Kuchma at the airfield. Lyudmila Kuchma came to Lvov
earlier today.
Hillary Clinton was actively preparing for the trip to Ukraine, a source in
the American delegation said. The ethnic- Ukrainian head of Hillary Clinton's
staff taught her the Ukrainian language and the history of the Ukrainian people
and the country.
Wives of the presidents will have separate dwellings. Lyudmila Kuchma will
be accommodated at a guest house of the local authorities in a picturesque place
far from Lvov center, and Hillary Clinton and the accompanying officials will be
accommodated at the Dnestr hotel in downtown Lvov. Two dozens of telephones for
international calls were additionally installed in the 15-years-old hotel
especially for the American delegation.
Hillary Clinton and Lyudmila Kuchma will have a busy day on November 17.
They will visit the neonatal center which takes care of prematurely born babies
with a small weight or various defects. The center has partner relations with
the Henry Ford hospital of Detroit. The presidents' wives will visit a
synagogue to meet the Jewish public of Lvov and go on a sight-seeing tour of the
700-years-old town. They will see a unique collection of ancient icons under
restoration at a scientific-research center, and visit the patriarch cathedral
of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.
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HEADLINE: MRS. CLINTON APPEALS FOR ETHNIC TOLERANCE
BYLINE: From Tribune News Services.
DATELINE: SAMARKAND, UZBEKISTAN
BODY:
U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton made a plea for ethnic tolerance
Friday, praising Uzbekistan's history of religious diversity and glossing over
its poor human-rights record.
Speaking in this city, medieval warlord Tamerlane's elegant capital, Mrs.
Clinton accented the positive, noting that Islam, Judaism and Christianity had
survived the seven decades of Soviet rule in Uzbekistan and are now practiced
openly.
"In a system whose goal it was to stifle difference and erase culture and
religion, you held fast
she said.
Mrs. Clinton, halfway through an eight-day tour of five former Soviet
republics, made no explicit reference to the Central Asian country's
human-rights record, criticized by advocacy groups as one of the worst in the
region.
But in language slightly more direct than during her earlier visits to
Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan, she stressed the importance of fair elections, freedom
of expression and of the press and protecting individuals from the state.
"Despite your great history, I would not be surprised if your people did not
have concerns about the years that lie ahead," she said. "While the architecture
of communism lies in rubble, the hard work of building the new structures of
freedom is just beginning."
Uzbekistan has been severely criticized by internatonal human rights groups
since it declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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HEADLINE: HILLARY CLINTON URGES MORE U.S. FINANCIAL AID FOR STRUGGLING REPUBLICS
BYLINE: From Tribune News Services.
DATELINE: YEKATERINBURG, RUSSIA
BODY:
The United States needs to give more attention and money to help the former
republics deal with problems they're facing in the post-Soviet era, First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.
"I don't think it (the relationship between U.S. and Russia) is starting to
fray," as critics have charged, Mrs. Clinton said. "I think it's maturing.'
That maturation should include more help from the U.S. for republics trying
to lay new political and economic foundations.
"Do I think personally that there should be more attention paid to how we can
help Russia in this transition? I do," Mrs. Clinton said during an interview at
the American consulate here.
"We spent trillions of dollars in the Cold War. And now that we no longer are
poised against one another, I think we should be doing all that we can to assist
Russia to become as successful as possible," she said.
"And to me, that includes not only government-to-government relationships but
business-to-business relationships and citizen-to-citizen relationships.
Some members of Congress and humanitarian groups say that help from the
United States should not be approved until the republics improve their human
rights records and stem government corruption. Crime, some of it from official
sources, is widespread throughout the federation. Almost all of the republics
restrict freedoms of the press, travel and association.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1997
AP
One stop left on goodwill mission
Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks yesterday at the House of Scientists
in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Mrs. Clinton spends the last day
of her eight-day tour of former Soviet republics today in Ukraine.
USA TODAY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1997
Study: Asian skid poses little U.S. threat
James Kim
about $612 billion last year,
SA TODAY
ize," says the report from
are rising and represent an In-
In-country business.
Morgan Stanley.
as PC makers, cellular phone
currencies lower TI's cost of
Revenue from U.S. operations
creasingly large piece of over-
makers and others.
A breakdown:
local labor, materials and oth-
The financial turmoil In
in Southeast Asia accounts for
all economic activity.
Trade. Many economists
For one thing. the company
just 8% of all revenue from
er expenses.
witheast Asia has U.S. Inves-
But in 1995, the last year for
accepts payments in dollars.
and business people fret-
have noted that developing
which numbers are available
U.S. operations in foreign
"People have a tendency to
So its revenue won't take an
countries in Asia including
countries.
overblow the Impact," says
'K. but a look at the sum of
from the Commerce Depart-
China, which is economically
immediate hil, even though
Texas Instrument ecbnomist
business In the region sug.
And even companies with
ment, business generated by
weakening Asian currencies
stable account for 20% of
Viadi Catto.
sis the economy is only
substantial operations In the
U.S. companies' units in other
U.S. exports.
will effectively raise prices
countries amounted to $1.2
region say they aren't likely to
So where are U.S. compa-
rginally at risk
for its customers.
And some economists have
The best way to measure
be severely affected by a re-
nies most exposed to global
trillion.
shaved their 1998 economic
Also, the company says, Its
economic shocks?
cession there.
that business conducted by
And in developing countries
customers in Southeast Asia
growth projections for the
The most harm would stem
companies is not only
Consider Texas Instru-
In Asia, which are important
often export their finished
USA to account for a possible
from smaller export markets.
iile, but also revenue gener-
trade partners, the amount of
ments, a big computer-chip
slowdown in those economies,
products to other countries,
The United Kingdom, for ex-
by U.S. operations In oth.
maker. It has assembly plants
revenue generated there by
making their businesses more
which would crimp U.S. ex-
ample, receives only 4.9% of
countries, says a research
all over Southeast Asia, where
U.S. businesses is slight. Thus,
dependent on European eco-
ports to the region
U.S. exports. But it accounts
illetin by Morgan Stanley.
"America's exposure is far
It packages microchips Into
nomic growth than local con-
That uncertainty has whip-
for 22% of revenue generated
exports. which totaled
less than most Investors real-
special casings before ship-
ditions.
lashed the stock markets.
by U.S. companies' operations
ping them to customers, such
Finally. declining Asian
in foreign countries.
WORLD ROUNDUP
scandal was compounded by disclosures that Blair met Bernie
Ecclestone, president of the Formula One Contractors Associa-
tion, before making the decision. Ecclesione had donated $1.7
Albright targets terrorism
Top Yeltsin aide in trouble
million to the Labor Party during the campaign that swept
Blair to power on May 1. Labor returned the money and halted
luring visit to Pakistan
its pursuit of a second donation.
Reform may lose
According to Kremlin Insid-
and openly called for his di
ers and political analysts, Yel-
missal.
FIRST LADY VISITS SIBERIA: First lady Hillary Rod-
over book scandal
tsin is not holding on to Chubais
Up until now, Yeltsin has di
Anti-terrorist measures are high on the agenda of Secretary
ham Clinton braved Siberian snows to visit an elite scientific
out of loyalty. but out of fear
fended Chubais and the cours
center struggling to cope-with the Soviet Union's demise. Once
that the country will slip into
By Genine Babakian
of reform that he represent
State Madeleine Albright during her visit to Pakistan. She
lived Sunday night, just one day after the bodies of four
a prestigious haven for scientists, the Akademgorogok aca-
economic and political chaos
Special for USA TODAY
Now, however, it looks as
demic settlement has suffered greatly as Moscow cut back
without him.
Yeltsin's days of backing Ch
mericans killed in an ambush were flown home. Albright, the
funding for key institutes. Clinton, nearing the end of an eight-
"Chubais is a known figure
MOSCOW Anatoly Chu-
bais without qualification ma
secretary of State to visit In 14 years, will meet today with
day tour of former Soviet republics, urged the community to
in the west," says Andrei Piont-
nine Minister Nawaz Sharif, who seeks to use Albright's visit
bais, the mastermind behind
be nearing an end.
persevere in areas of science and democracy.
kowsky, director of Moscow's
"The president has dell'
better a relationship shadowed by issues of nuclear prolifer-
Russia's privatization program,
Center for Strategic Studies. "If
POWER:
emerged from a rocky week-
ered Chubais a strong blov
non, terrorism and Islamic militancy.
MIR
REGAINS
The
Mir
Yeltsin fires Chubais now, it
crew
fired
Security in the capital, Islamabed, is tight after the State De-
up
systems
and a well-deserved one," say
end with his Kremlin job In-
will cause havoc on the stock
Dmitry Trenin, an analyst
ilment warned Americans about possible revenge attacks
that shut down after the trouble-plagued space station lost pow-
Lact. But the political scandal
markets."
the sentence on Mir Almal Kasi, a Pakistani convicted of
er as it tested a solar panel, Russia's Interfax news agency re-
the Carnegie Endowment to
that decimated his staff may
ported. The power loss on Friday caused the station's motion
Russia's fledgling. securities
International Peace in Mor
lling two CIA employees in 1993. Pakistani officials say the
have placed new barriers
control computer to turn off, but it was restored to service the
market has suffepled blows
along Russia's road to reform.
cow. "He is likely to retre.
on the Americans was a botched attempt to wreck both
same day and all other systems were switched back on Sunday
from recent volatility on Asian
into the shadows for a while
thright's visit and one by President Clinton set for early next
The scandal broke out over
(Kasi sentenced, 3A)
night, Interfax said. NASA spokesman Ed Campion said the
markets, so this is no small con-
word that Chubais and two of
Retreating along with Chi
crew Anatoly Solovyev, Pavel Vinogradov and American
sideration. "For now, Yeltsin
bais, says Trenin, IS Russia's
his senior aides had received
LAIR
APOLOGIZES:
David Wolf were not In any danger.
has to keep him for damage
form program With Yeltsin
Facing
widespread
criticism
large fees for an unpublished
over
a
control, but Chubais is more
impaign donor who won an exemption on tobacco advertis-
CLOSE
book on privatization. Accord-
position now compromised b
CALL:
An
Argentine
commercial
than a lame duck, he's a politi-
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he made the right
airliner
almost
ing to press reports circulated
Chubais' impropriety in th.
collided with a U.S. Air Force Galaxy transport plane carrying
cal corpse," says Piontkowsky.
book affair, Russia's law allow
ision but apologized for mishandling the controversy. "I
last week, each received
equipment and personnel for President Clinton's visit to Argen-
"He has lost Yeltsin's trust, and
$90,000, an act deemed Im-
ing private land ownership
never, ever do something wrong or change a policy
tina last month, la Nacion newspaper reported. Air traffic
that was his main capital."
proper if not illegal.
may be delayed. 11 also is possi
ause someone supported or donated to the Labor Party,"
control in the city of Bariloche mistakenly authorized an Aero-
Indeed, many Yeltsin critics
ble that the future of the coun
told the British Broadcasting Company In a TV interview.
President Boris Yeltsin fired
lineas Argentinas Boeing 737 10 land while the U.S. plane was
In the communist-dominated
came under attack for reversing a campaign promise
the book's co-authors, both of
Iry's privatization program will
taking off from the same runway on Oct. 15, said the Argentine
parliament believe Chubais' in-
be called into question
agreeing to grant Formula One auto racing an exemption
whom held government posts.
Air Line Pilots Association The two jets caine within 1,600 feet
Quence over the president has
However, Yeltsin stopped short
"In Russia it IS always (w)
a proposed European ban on tobacco promotions. The
of colliding, an Aerolinens Argentinas pilot said.
been too strong They have reg.
of dring Chubais, his first depu-
steps forward. one slep back
ularly attacked as too severe
ly prime minister.
says Trenin "This was a ste
his path of economic transition
backward."
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HEADLINE: Appealing for more democracy, Hillary Clinton wraps up tour
DATELINE: LVOV, Ukraine, Nov 17
BODY:
Hillary Clinton, wife of US President Bill Clinton, wrapped up her tour of
former Soviet republics here on Monday with an appeal for more democracy and
less corruption.
Clinton, whose visit has taken in the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan as well as Russia, told several hundred people gathered at a memorial
to the victims of communism that they had the support of the American people.
"I've come here to send the message that in your fight for freedom, in your
fight for democracy, the American people will stand with you," she said.
"In face of the unspeakable horror the people of Ukraine did not give up,
instead they took the road of democracy," she said, adding that democracy "is a
never ending struggle."
"If we want democracy and freedom then we must build a civil society where
the rule of law, not the rule of crime and corruption, prevails," the US
president's wife said.
Clinton arrived in Lvov -- also known as Lviv -- Sunday. She left for her
return trip to Washington around midday Monday.
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HEADLINE: Synagogue welcomes freedom, first lady Precede AKADEMGORODOK (
BYLINE: LAURIE KELLMAN *REPLACE*
DATELINE: LVIV, Ukraine
BODY:
Beneath a ceiling pocked with Nazi bullet holes, Shoshana Tyonikina on
Monday climbed up on the stage of Gilad Synagogue to deliver a carefully
practiced speech to the American first lady.
''Today, our parents and we are not afraid to say we are Jews,' Shoshana,
13, told U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Nothing similar would have occurred in the building a decade ago.
In 1987, the synagogue wasn't a Jewish house of worship, but a
government-owned building for more than 40 years. Jews were not allowed to
worship freely then. And American first ladies did not visit Soviet-Jewish holy
places during the Cold War, much less with a wall of news cameras watching.
During World War II, Nazis turned the three-level sanctuary, with its
stained-glass windows bearing Jewish Stars, into a stable and used the ceiling
for target practice. The Soviet Union later reclaimed the building and converted
it to a warehouse. The synagogue was returned to Lviv's Jewish community of
6,000 people in 1989.
Now, Ukraine is an independent nation of 51 million people, the Gilad
Synagogue has reopened and Mrs. Clinton has come to visit.
The bullet holes are still visible, but around them, the arched ceiling is
re-painted with ornate biblical scenes on a bright yellow background.
The same sanctuary that once housed horses for Nazis to ride was filled on
Monday with kids singing Hebrew songs and waving signs reading: 'Thank you for
visiting the Jewish children of Ukraine!''
'When you get back home, please tell the folks in the States that you met
some old-fashioned American idealism'' in Lviv, Rabbi Mordechai Bald told Mrs.
Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton's visit to Ukraine caps the first lady's eight-day goodwill tour
of the former Soviet Union.
Residents here on Monday gave her by far the most vibrant greeting of any of
the five republics she has visited. ''Long live!'! and 'Welcome,' more than
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1,000 Ukrainians sang from under babushkas and umbrellas at a square where a new
memorial to victims of communist rule stands.
In Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Russia, the crowds rarely gave her
more than polite applause.
In Lviv, she drew loud cheers and applause with a line she used several times
on the trip: ''In your fight for freedom, in your fight for democracy, the
American people will stand with you.
On Sunday, Mrs. Clinton spoke to scientists in Akademgorodok, an intellectual
enclave in Russia's Siberia.
The scientific process and democracy have a lot in common,' Mrs. Clinton
said at the Hall of Scientists. ''Both ask that you sacrifice today for a better
tomorrow. Both demand patience, stamina and creativity. Both require faith. I
have that faith.
The older generation does not share it, and younger Russians are not sure of
their faith in the new system, either, the Alexandrov family told the first lady
during a visit to their home later Sunday.
There, Mrs. Clinton came face-to-face with the uncertainties, doubts and
resentments Russians feel toward reform.
American-style independence is not what came to Siberia when the Soviet Union
collapsed, Vladimir Mikhailovich Alexandrov told her.
Corruption is more like it, he said. Also, 'chaos, said his wife, Olga.
Americans visiting the republic should tour historic landmarks to ''understand
Russia's soul, Alexandrov suggested.
'Which is already lost, 11 his wife added.
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HEADLINE: "Warmest of relations" develop between Russian, US first ladies - Mrs
Yeltsin
SOURCE: Source: ITAR-TASS news agency (World Service), Moscow, in Russian 0656
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Text of report by ITAR-TASS news agency
Yekaterinburg, 16th November: Having seen the US president's wife, Hillary
Clinton, off on her flight to Novosibirsk, the Russian president's wife, Naina
Yeltsin, held a news conference at Yekaterinburg airport.
Sharing her impressions on Hillary Clinton's visit, Naina Yeltsin stressed
that "the best and warmest of relations" had developed between them. "Our
meeting was very good, we understood one another very well," she said, adding
that Hillary Clinton was in a very good mood throughout the entire trip, she
liked the town and the people and she had left Yekaterinburg very pleased.
Naina Yeltsin told journalists that she had already spoken to Boris Yeltsin
by telephone, and in reply to his question about how her meeting with the US
president's wife had gone, she had answered briefly: "It went well. When I get
home I'll give you the details."
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HEADLINE: Hillary in Russia
BYLINE: Jill Dougherty, Valerie Morris
BODY:
VALERIE MORRIS, CNNfn ANCHOR, IN PLAY: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is
on her trip through the former Soviet Union. Mrs. Clinton stopped in Russia
where the country's transformation to capitalism caused some residents to see
chaos and not improvement. CNN's Jill Dougherty reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sunday in Siberia. Hillary
Rhodium Clinton, news cameras in tow, joined the Alexander family for tea.
Vladimir, the grandfather works at the Institute of Mathematics in the town of
Akademgorodok academic township. A suburb of Novasebersk. His wife Olga is a
retired librarian. Economic reform in Russia she tells the first lady has meant
Chaos. The soul of Russia is lost. Daughter Svetlana says crime is her chief
concern. As for reform, she can't decide whether things are getting worse or
better. Yet there is no bitterness at the table. More a kind of wistfulness for
more stable time in Russia and in Akademgorodok.
In Soviet times this was the brain power center of Russia attracting the
nation's top scientist and academics. But all their work, all their research
and development was paid for by the central government. Now that government is
broke. Yet Mrs. Clinton says that people of Akademgorodok are already have many
of the skills they' 11 need in the new economy.
HILLARY RODHAM-CLINTON: Because the scientific process and Democracy have a
lot in common. Both ask that you sacrifice today for results tomorrow. Both
demand patience, stamina and creativity. Both require faith. I have that
faith.
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DOUGHERTY (voice-over): In Russia, right now, there's a generation gap The
majority of older people think things got worse over the past year. The majority
of young people believe things got better. Akademgorodok is a young town and so
are its people and that could make a difference.
Jill Dougherty, CNN, Akademgorodok, Russia.
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INTERNATIONAL
mote a traditional liberal vision
of America's responsibility to
provide foreign support and aid.
She often travels to remote re-
gions where no presidential mo-
torcade would venture and
where no secretary of state
would have time to go. That
means her agenda attracts little
attention in America: in fact.
Hillary seems happiest when
her work and her motives are
free from scrutiny.
With the Republican-con-
trolled Congress intent on cut-
ting U.S. foreign aid, the State
Department regards Hillary as
a useful high-profile asset.
Though she steers clear of
actually constructing foreign
policy (she doesn't even have a
security clearance), she's willing
to express herself more candid-
ly than diplomats can. Her
diplomatic coming-out took
place at the 1995 U.N. women's
conference in Beijing, where
DAVID HUME KENNEALT FOR NEWSWEER
she hammered the Chinese gov-
ernment on human-rights abus-
es and declared that "women's
rights are human rights, once
and for all." Her China-bashing
pleased conservative critics
while at the same time sealing
her alliance with Madeleine Al-
A powerful presidential envoy: The First Lady greets women at a market in Kyrgyzstan
bright, then American ambas-
sador to the United Nations. Af-
DIPLOMACY
ter the 1996 election, Hillary
lobbied Clinton to name Al-
Destination Unknown
bright secretary of state, and
since then Albright has relied on
Hillary as a diplomatic alter ego,
promoting women's rights, for-
Constrained at home, Hillary finds freedom abroad
eign aid and "soft policy" while
Albright tends mainly to "hard"
matters of state (or, as their
By KAREN BRESLAU
senting bouquets on the tarmac-Hillary.
aides joke, "the boy stuff"). "By bringing
UDDENLY SHE'S EVERYWHERE. ONE
like her globetrotting hero Eleanor Roo-
women's issues and American values to the
22
S
day it's Belfast to give a boost to the
sevelt, has developed into a powerful presi-
rest of the world she perfectly complements
Northern Ireland peace process. The
dential envoy. Like earlier trips to Africa,
the national-interest calculations that drive
next it's Chequers-the country re-
India and South America, Hillary's journey
the bulk of our foreign policy," says Al-
treat of the British prime minister-where
to Central Asia was no First Lady photo op
bright's spokesman, James Rubin.
she and Tony Blair, joined by top aides from
but a diplomatic mission crafted to promote
Hillary doesn't hesitate to make her hosts
both governments, spend a day discussing
American interests-as well as her own.
squirm. When she went to Thailand last
their transatlantic agenda. Last week
Hillary's taste for the road stems partly
year, she led a phalanx of American televi-
Hillary Clinton touched down in Central
from the painful debacle of health-care re-
sion cameras to a remote northern village
Asia to promote the Clinton administra-
form. When Americans rejected her vision
where young prostitutes were dying of
tion's gospel of democracy, human rights
of liberal, activist government during Clin-
AIDS. "It wasn't exactly the image [the
and free markets. In Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz-
ton's first term, she found accepting-even
Thais] wanted to project," an aide to the
stan and Uzbekistan she urged audiences
adoring-audiences around the globe.
First Lady concedes. In Slovakia, her first
still digging out from Soviet-style commu-
Whether it's Bishkek or Bangladesh, Hill-
stop was to see a freedom-of-the-press
nism to "create a civil society."
ary preaches universal health care and
group that had been suppressed by the gov-
Hillary Rodham Clinton has logged more
women's rights with a boldness she hasn't
ernment; only afterward did she make an of-
miles than any other First Lady in history.
shown at home publicly for years. Though
ficial courtesy call on the offending authori-
But behind the traditional images of the
she's been reluctant to spell out a second-
ties. When Hillary called for access to birth
president's wife abroad-the costumed
term agenda, her travels give the clearest in-
control in Buenos Aires last month-an
dancers, the well-scrubbed children pre-
dication yet that she intends to actively pro-
open challenge to the Argentine Roman
INTERNATIONAL
Catholic church-ber female audience
from her cabin to root through the shopping
vian women about the virtues of microcred
erupted in a standing ovation. "This." boasts
bags of aides, issuing mock scoldings to
it lending-loans as small as $50 that pro-
an aide, "was her Evita moment."
those who skipped numbing round-table
vide starting capital to low-income entre-
It is precisely the unrestrained image
discussions on microenterprise or female
preneurs. Only then did she take care of the
Hillary so gleefully cultivates abroad that
genital mutilation in favor of a shop op.
summit's official event: the signing of a
has brought her so much grief in Washing-
Even when she attends traditional First
hemispheric pledge to eradicate measles.
ton. Only in places where references to
Lady gatherings, such as the annual summit
By the time she returns to Washington
"Whitewater," "health care" and "Ken
of the well-coiffed primas damas of the
this week, Hillary will have represented the
Starr" evoke blank stares from her transla-
Western Hemisphere (an event her aides
United States on every continent but
tors does the personality her aides call "the
dubbed "Final Net City"), Hillary doggedly
Antarctica. "It's like she's not my daughter
real Hillary" emerge. On the road, the First
pursues her own agenda. In Bolivia last
anymore. She's a world figure," her mothe:
Lady is relaxed. approachable, candid, even
year, while the other first ladies primped for
said at her 50th-birthday celebration in
irreverent-traits rarely seen by reporters
their meetings and banquets. Hillary in-
Chicago last month. Like her husband
at the White House. When her plane takes
spected a USAID-funded maternity clinic
Hillary has discovered it's easier to craft a
off from distant capitals, Hillary bounds
then marched off for a meeting with Boli-
legacy on the world stage than at home.
fired and last hired. With help
Report From the Road
from nongovernmental agen-
cies and USAID, they have
formed "Village Banks,"
which give them modest loans
Again and again, I saw how much good American aid and
to buy goods to sell at market.
investment can do. BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
Many have also been helped
by vital nongovernmental or-
ganizations, which are clean-
ing up the environ-
AST WEEK I TRAVELED
Novosibirsk, the
ment, protecting
to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz-
beauty of Lviv. But the
the rights of dis-
stan, Uzbekistan, Russia
most powerful memo-
abled children and
and Ukraine at the re-
ries of my visit are of
supporting a free
quest of the president and
the people. Despite
press and indepen-
Secretary of State Albright to
crumbling schools
dent judiciary.
see the historic transforma-
and rising tuition,
Again and again.
tion in the former Soviet
classrooms were
I saw how much
Union. In many ways, this trip
filled with exception-
good American aid
is a continuation of the work I
ally bright young peo-
and investment
have tried to do for the past
ple. I'll always re-
abroad can do. I
four and a half years-and
member walking into
also saw how
which I hope to continue in
Soviet-style schools
American business-
the years ahead. I want to
and finding students
es and voluntary
help these newly independent
inside learning for the
organizations have
nations promote democracy,
first time about
donated supplies
economic reform and civil so-
democracy. Under
HUME
for hospitals and
ciety, and to send a clear mes-
the Freedom Support
sage that the United States
DAVID
clothing for chil-
Act, many of these
dren. through pro-
will stand with those who are
students had studied
Supporting new societies: In Kazakhstan
jects like Operation
committed to them. I came to
in U.S. high schools. If
Provide Hope.
stress the important roles that
the American people could
helping to create in the former
Peace Corps volunteers are
women, young people and
hear how they had been trans-
Soviet republics. They are the
teaching English and econom-
nongovernmental organiza-
formed by the experience, I
result of a true public-private
ics and cleaning up environ-
tions must play in building a
believe they would want to
international partnership.
mental damage.
better future. At a time when
invite more.
providing a full range of
Across Central Asia, Russia
Americans legitimately won-
In the places I visited, the
health care to women-in-
and Ukraine, we are making
der what our responsibilities
health-care system of the past
cluding family-planning ser-
progress. But even in this age
are in the aftermath of the
has been left behind, leaving
vices. Over time, access to
of rapid change, we cannot ex-
cold war, I hope this trip will
enormous gaps in care. Physi-
contraception could lower the
pect the legacy of communism
underscore why American as-
cians told me about high in-
abortion rate, as is already
to vanish overnight. These
sistance and involvement re-
fant and maternal mortality
happening in Kazakhstan.
newly free people need our
main essential
rates, and about the wide-
Everywhere I went I spoke
support. To do otherwise
I have many memories of
spread cancers, birth defects
with women who have over-
would be to abdicate our re-
my trip: the mountains of Al-
and other illnesses caused by
come unimaginable odds to
sponsibilities and miss a his-
maty, a thriving bazaar outside
environmental damage. I offi-
build a society that values
toric opportunity to ensure
Bishkek, the mosques and syn-
cially opened two of the 13
their contributions. In Kyr-
prosperity not only in these
agogues of Bukhara, the uni-
new women's wellness cen-
gyzstan, women described to
countries, but in our own
versities of Yekaterinburg in
ters that our government is
me how they are often the first
country and around the world
46
NEWSWEEK NOVEMBER 24, 1997
THE WASHIN
The Relia
By Ann Gerhart
Snuffle Diplomacy: First Lady's Olfactory Tour of Uzbekistan
Almost no Uzbeks smiled or waved as her motorcade
F
irst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was treated to a
Martha Stewart moment yesterday in Tashkent as
rolled down heavily guarded streets, prompting a U.S.
an Uzbek government official blew fragrance from
diplomat to note that old Soviet habits die hard: Grim
a small fume bottle into a formal sitting room shortly be
citizens remain wary of a massive police presence. But
fore she met with Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov.
earlier the first lady met some admirers among 100
The scented air was part of the officially endorsed rosy
English-speaking students at Tashkent University of
view of the nation that became independent of the Soviet
World Economy and Diplomacy, including a young
Union in 1991, Reuters reported.
woman who called her "gorgeous."
On her eight-day goodwill tour of this and four other
Asked what she thought about U.S. tobacco companies
former Soviet republics, Clinton saw a just-gussied-up
peddling their wares to Uzbeks, Clinton said she had no
health center complete with carpeting, chandeliers and a
opinion about the legal cigarette trade there or in
pregnant woman lying on her back awaiting a sonogram.
America "other than to say, Don't buy their products."
BY SHAMIL DIUMATON-REUTERS
A glided greeting: The first lady receives gifts from an Uzbek student wearing the national costume.
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Also Inside:
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PHOTOCOPY
Eremeh
Kazakctah
1997
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BcecBiT
UKRAINIAN ENTERNENT
Гратулюємо,
NASA
пані Гілларі!
USA
UKRAINE
Дружина президента США
Український acTpoHaBT Лео-
взяв y KocMoc
сподобалася y Львові
BCIM, KoMy пощастило
піснями
H побачити
Заробіток
Львів cTaB единим MicToM України, яке відвідала під час
Γo евразійського TypHe дружина Білла Клінтона. Для ii П
живання американська cTopoHa закупила весь багатопов
Iнофірми надають перевагу
1
ховий готель®Дністер», B якому реально зайняла лише два
верхи. Складений заздалегідь графік перебування Г.Клінт
робочий які працюють тиждень
практично He 3a3HaB 3MiH: покладання KBiTiB до пам ятник
Ta MoHyMeHTiB, зустрічі 3 владою, реставраторами, медин
Делікатес
ми представниками громадськості. Невелике відхилення
плану сталося лише неонатальному центрі Львівської обла
ної клінічної лікарні. Материнські почуття першої леді Сп
лучених Штатів, мабуть, далися взнаки, через що триваліс
HILLARY CONGRATULATION
ii візиту B окл стала довшою майже Ha десять хвилин.
мпп виробничо-комерційиа фірма
"Think
Проводить сезонний розпродаж спецодягу власного виробництва
MA
Костюм робочий від 18 ΓpH,
Костюм камуфляжний від 49 ΓpH.
Рукавиці робочі від 1,35 ΓpH.
Костюм брезентовий від 40 ΓpH.
B Україні тільки два види гри-
Штани BaTHi від 16 ΓpH.
Напівкомбінезон від 21 ΓpH.
бів сертифіковано вирощуван- дозволено
Куфайка від 8 ΓpH.
Черевики кирзові від 28 ΓpH.
для ня промислового гливи печериці
Фартух від 3,25 ΓpH.
Чоботи кирзові від 32 ΓpH.
c.24
Халат від 8 ΓpH.
Чоботи ΓyMoBi від 14 ΓpH.
Також реалізує металопрокат, труби чк, засуви,
ni
Γa3oBi,
скло,
THB
Ta
Inme
Гастролі
МОЖЛИВИЙ БАРТЕР HA ЦУКОР
M. Львів, вул. M. Пимоненка (Донбасівська), 15A
тел./факс: (0322) 42-27-55, 22-18-71, 22-26-68, 28-28-04
T30B "ME3OH"
АПТЕКА
Кімічний ЗАВОД AT «ГЕДЕОН РİХТЕР»
TA СП «ГЕДЕОН РІХТЕР-УКРФАРМ»
постійно реалізує
ЕЛ. ДВИГУНИ:
Пекінська опера успішно по-
ЛАКОТКАНИНУ:
Anteka вул. Городоцькій, 27. Тел.: 74-11-22
репрезентують
відкриття нової фірмової аптеки y M. Львові
3l складу y Львові:
КАБЕЛЬ, ПРОВІД 300 найменувань);
ЕЛЕКТРООБЛАДНАННЯ;
МЕТАЛОРУКАВ;
RG
КОПИГЕДЕОН ЗОЛОТИМ PIXTEP ЛЕВОМ»
ЕЛ. ЛАМПИ:
пропонують:
препарати заводу «Гедеон PixTep»
казала B Галичині класичні ще
дійства, датовані Китаї
ЕЛ. KAPTOH;
Адреса:
широкий асортимент лікарських засобів
КІП. СТРӀЧКУ
вітчизняного Ta зарубіжного виробництва
XII XIII століттями
c.28
ПХВ 130СТРІЧКУ
PixTep гарантія вашого здоров'.
атулюємо,
Hi Гілларі!
a президента США
алася y Львові
My пощастило
ИТИ
Львів cTaB единим MicToM України, яке відвідала під час cBo-
Γo евразійського TypHe дружина Білла Клінтона. Для ii про-
живання американська cTopoHa закупила весь багатоповер-
ховий готель «Дністер», B якому реально зайняла лише два по-
верхи. Складений заздалегідь графік перебування Г.Клінтон
практично He 3a3HaB 3MiH: покладання KBiTiB до пам'ятників
Ta MoHyMeHTiB, зустрічі 3 владою, реставраторами, медика-
ми i представниками громадськості. Невелике відхилення від
плану сталося лише y неонатальному центрі Львівської облас-
ної клінічної лікарні. Материнські почуття першої леді Спо-
лучених Штатів, мабуть, далися взнаки, через що тривалість
HILLARY CONGRATULATION
ii візиту B окл стала довшою майже Ha десять хвилин.
МПП виробничо-комерційна фірма
NEUKON
«ГЕЛІКОН»
"Think
Wis
Проводить сезонний розпродаж спецодягу власного виробництва
Ma
Костюм робочий від 18 ΓpH.
Костюм камуфляжний від 49 ΓpH.
Рукавиці робочі від 1,35 ΓpH.
Костюм брезентовий від 40 ΓpH.
Штани BaTHi від 16 ΓpH.
Напівкомбінезон від 21 ΓpH.
Куфайка від 8 ΓpH.
Черевики кирзові від 28 ΓpH.
Фартух від 3,25 ΓpH.
Чоботи кирзові від 32 ΓpH
Халат від 8 ΓpH.
Чоботи ΓyMoBi від 14 ΓpH.
Також peanlaye металопрокат, труби чк, засуви,
електродаигуни, лічильники Γa3oBi, скло, THB Ta Insue
МОЖЛИВИЙ БАРТЕР HA ЦУКОР
M. Львів, вул. M. Пимоненка (Донбасівська), 15A
тел./факс: (0322) 42-27-55, 22-18-71, 22-26-68, 28-28-04
E3OH"
АПТЕКА
Хімічний ЗАВОД AT «ГЕДЕОН PIXTEP»
TA CH «ГЕДЕОН РіХТЕР-УКРФАРМ»
Аптека Ha вул. Городоцькій, 27. Тел.: 74-11-22
репрезентують
відкриття нової фірмової аптеки y M. Львові
паду y Львові:
RG
КОНГЕДЕОН ЗОЛОТИМ PIXTEP ЛЕВОМ»
пропонують:
препарати заводу «Гедеон PixTep»
peca: Львів,
широкий асортимент лікарських засобів
вітчизняного Ta зарубіжного виробництва
л./факс:
PixTep гарантія вашого здоров'я
Eremsh
PHOTOCOPY
Kasakctah
PRESERVATION
1997
WELCOME,
mrs. Clinton!
дружину
юваєм.
Десяткам львів'ян вдалося поручкатися
3 чарівною пані Клінтон Ha вулицях MicTa.
Фото Iropa СЕНКАЛЬСЬКОГО,
ИЙ
y реставраційній майстерні
Михайла ДАШКОВИЧА, REUTERS
Національного музею.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
Eremel
kazaketah 1997
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
ka3akctah
1997
12
NCE
Медики приймають від Г.Клінтон
гуманітарний вантаж
для львівських лікарень.
WEL
mrs. C
Першими зустрічали B аеропорту дружину
президента США Tpoe дівчат 3 короваєм.
8
R
#
/
Десяткам львів'ян вдалося поручкат
3 чарівною пані Клінтон Ha вулицях 1
Через хвилину
фотокореспондента
попросять
покинути
трапезний зал, аби
He перешкоджати
об'єктивом
po3MoBi Гілларі
Клінтон 3
Людмилою
Кучмою 3a обідом.
Політика i політики
Фірма
"Малятко
Oa,
Imo
«Одяг»
ye?!
пропонує
СПЕЦІАЛІЗОВАНА ДИТЯЧА КРАМНИЦЯ
ГІЛЛАРІ клінтон У HAC
SECOND
Регіональний дилер A3T
"Европродукт"
cn "TOPTPAH"
пропонує:
HAND
ΓypToM
СПОДОБАЛОСЬ. НАСТУПНОГО
Дитаче харчування провідних
свропейських виробників
Предмети догляду 3a дітьми
Предмети дитечо! жіночої гігісни
РАЗУ ПРИІДЕ БІЛЛ?
база Укропттекстильторг»
ГУРТОВА TA РОЗДРІБНА ТОРПВЛЯ
M. Пьвів, ВУЛ. Зепена. 147
(Закінчення. Поч. Ha cTop. 3)
УКРАЇНСЬКЕ МИСТЕЦТВО
M. Чернівці, проспект
Незалежності, 109-A
Як правило, y таких візитах Bce no-
ЗАӀМПОНУВАЛО ΓOCTI
тел.: (0322) 42-11-07
Центральна дитяча поліклініка.
винно відбуватися 3a наперед сплано-
ваною програмою. Зрештою, TaK бу-
y Національному My3ei Гілларі
Кликть po3paxyHoK MeHTa
тел. (0372) 585-246
no, якщо He брати до уваги Te, що y
Клінтон мала 3MoΓy наблизитися до
перший день cBoΓo перебування y
таїнств українського мистецтва. Cneui-
Поспішайте!
Львові Гілларі Клінтон no дорозі до
ально для цього aKToBoMy залі влаш-
неонатального центру обласної клі-
тували імпровізовану реставраційну
нічної лікарні вирішила покласти квіти
майстерню, куди було перенесено
найцінніший експонат музею Бого-
РЕКЛАМНІ
до пам ятника Tapacos Шевченку, що
було зроблено pa3oM 13 Людмилою
родчанський iKoHocTac. Take несподі-
Фото Євгена
ОДНОРАЗОВИИ
Кучмою.
BaHe рішення трохи дивує, 60 музейні
Згодом пані Кучма вирушила до My-
працівники y численних po3MoBax 3a-
зичної школи iHTepHaTy iMeHi Соломії
певняли, що iKoHocTac мусить спочат-
ПАКЕТИ
ПОСУД
Крушельницької, президентські сти-
Ky адаптуватися до нових yMoB (його,
пендіати якої дали урочистий концерт
нагадаємо, нещодавно перевезли 3
Ha честь Людмили Миколаївни. y CBOIO
музею Ha вул. Драгоманова), a вже no-
чергу дружина Президента подарува-
TIM ставлятимуть для постійного oΓ-
kon.
na школі картину, однак He виявила
ляду Заспокоює лише Te, шо відтепер
B-BC Німеччини
знижки.
особливого бажання поспілкуватися
iKoHocTac уже He носитимуть, a pecTaB-
львів янами, KoTpi чекали ii Ha вулиш,
рація триватиме TyT же, B aKToBoMy залі.
PHOTOCOPY
Однак Te, що до приізду американки
PRESERVATION
Eremel
Kazakctah
1997
a, сівши y шикарний чорний мерседес,
Тел.: (0322) 39-26-73, 343134
вирушила готуватися до офіційного обі-
Bci температу (PHI параметри TaK
ду. y той час Гілларі Клінтон оглядала
несподівано наблизилися до потрібної
місцеву синагогу Ta спілкувалася пред-
кондиції, наводить Ha думку, що для
ставниками єврейської громади MicTa
зрушення справ міській культурі Bap-
Гілларі Клінтон виступала 3 доповіддю
Γa3eTa
Найбільше львів ян змогло засвідчити
TO було 6 запросити до Львова ще и
y Tearpi опери Ta балету. BoHa була Bpa-
Фирма "ЯВВА"
свою повагу першій леді США під час
пані Коль чи пані Єльцину, a TO Й caMy
жена красою TeaTpy, що й позначилося
реализует
покладання KBITIB до пам'ятника жерт-
королеву Великобританії,
Ha TOHI виступу. Годину тривала зустріч
"ЕКСПРЕС"
BaM комуністичних pe-
Mix тим, перша леді Америки no-
пані Клінтон 3 громадськістю Львова. A
котлы
пресій. Були TyT люди
ходжала залом, роздив-
опісля 3a зачиненими дверима висока
pi3HoΓo BiKy. Дехто Ha-
лялася ікони Ta пробу-
гостя зустрілася українськими жінками.
запрошує
чугунные
BITE He вірив, що перед
A насамкінець
вала вступати y мис-
бытовые 4-10
ним справді жива дру-
тецькі розмови Hane-
ЛЬВІВ HE ВІДПУСКАВ
ПЕРШУ ЛЕДІ США
Ha роботу
жина американського
майже без акцен-
редодні y музеї було
секипонные.
президента IT виступ
Ty пані Клінтон
проведено KoHKypc Ha
кілька pa3iB переривав-
найкраще тіло (себто
Під час перебування Гілларі Клінтон
Работают Ha твердом
ся гучними оплесками. A
вигукнула: "Слава
чоловіка мужньої cTaTy-
Bce йшло 3a програмою. BoHa майже He
РЕКЛАМНОГО
и Γa3oBoM топливе.
насамкінець майже без
акценту пані Клінтон ви-
Україні!". Це було
ри), яке послужило би
запізнювалася Ha заплановані зустрічі,
Цены ниже
працівником гардеробу
однак затрималась y Львові Ha годину
заводских.
гукнула: "Слава Укра-
щось неймовірне.
Ha час перебування пані
більше, HDK передбачалося. "Боїнг" Ha
(0564) 28-11-39
THI!". Це було щось He-
Клінтон y cTiHax Наці-
злітну cMyΓy подали 3a півгодини до ви
ATEHTA
Тел.: (0564) 28- 19-40.
ймовірне. Лунали три-
онального. KoHKypc ви-
льоту, завантаживши валізами Ta пода-
29-61-29.
валі оплески
mse
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чественную работу авиаци-
устойчивого равновесия Ha-
B KoTopoM приняла учас-
равкой.
oHHoΓo двигателя.
шей жизни». и Bce для этого
тие группа студентов
редпри-
Итак, K HaM только что
делает, начав, впрочем, C ca-
из ассоциации *Юные
решили
прибыла Хиллари Родхэм
MoΓo убедительного C CO-
лидеры Ka3axcTaHa»
смерть»
Клинтон супруга Билла
бственной семьи
(АЮЛК). 3aTeM первая
под де-
Клинтона, президента Coe-
Вступив должность
леди США посетила Γocy-
no сде-
диненных Штатов Амери-
зидента США, Билл Клинтон
дарственный музей pec-
классу
ки.
сделал здравоохранение од-
публики.
ны, HO
Ee личный и весьма впе-
ним из самых приоритетных
12 ноября X. Клинтон и
истым
чатляющий послужной спи-
направлений политики своей
президент республикан-
COK открылся задолго до об-
администрации. OH Ha3Ha-
cKoΓo детского фонда «Бо-
ретения супругом столь Be-
чил свою супругу Ha пост
бек» Capa Назарбаева при-
лматы.
личественного титула. B Te-
руководителя созданной им
MyT участие B работе
чение 12 лет oHa была пер-
Специальной группы no pe-
третьей международной
вой леди штата ApKaH3ac и
форме национального здра-
конференции «Женщина и
TaK преуспела B этом качес-
воохранения.
политика», Ha которой пер-
TBe, что стала «женщиной
B Америке ee называют
вая леди США выступит C
Ka3axc-
года», a 3aTeM "матерью
"пожизненной отличницей»
докладом 0 cBoeM виде-
близ-
года» этого штата. Выпус-
Согласитесь, He caMoe пло-
нии положения женщин B
акима
кница Йельской юридичес-
xoe качество для первой
Центральноазиатском pe-
кой школы Хиллари Клинтон
дамы государства!
гионе.
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Нефтяные реки,
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PRESERVATION
Ka
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Stans
I
TY
ба
ла
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бід
бе
Ma
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КИ.
ал.
Mai
лат
Yπ
TyT
турлері
Кукыктык реформа бағыты ад
lшкі icTep министрі Кайыр
Сулейменов усынган Кылмыст
aTKapy кодексі жобасын kapay ба
сында да кукык маселел
талкыланды. Сенаторлар жазал
тужырымдамасын, оларды орын
сотталгандардын тертібіне бакы
жасауды лдай келіп, жобага
Депутаттаренгізілгенозгеріс
MeH толыктыруларды ecKepe o
рып. жобаны Мажіліс
opicTeyiHe мол
арбір oHep a
бугінгі Ka3a
шартты
барлык
АЛМАТЫ.
дын
тартібін,
Ty3eTy енгізді.
пысыктауына жіберді.
БАСТА
бастауы. Мунь
ратын энер ала
жогары болаты
«EΓeMeH Казақстан»
Жеделхат
«EΓeMeH Казақстан» Γa3eTiHiH бас p
Ублихан ҚАЛИЖАНҒА!
конвенция, COH-
Карашанын откізілген
Сенаттын пленарлык отырысында
депутаттар Президенттін Бас
прокурорлыкка Юрий Хитринді
тагайындауын колдай келіп, кукык
Kopray органдары кызметіндегі ба-
сымбагыт адамды.
MeH мудделерін накты KopΓay бола-
тынына YMIT білдірді. Олар
Жогарғы COT судьясы болып
жанадан сайланған Галия
Макажанова MeH эділет вице-
министрі болып тагайындалган
оздерінін apirrreci Сергей Жалы-
бинге де осындай тілек білдірді.
Улттык онеріміздін oTKeHi MeH
бугініне K03 жyriprin, ой ToKTaTcaK
Ka3aK халкынын бас Γa3eTi үнемі
камкоршы, онын «ыстытына куйіп,
суытына тонып» келе жаткан айны-
Mac жан досы eKeHiH бірден
ангарамыз. Ушы-киыры жок eH да-
лада тарыдай шашылып, ел арасын-
да oHep корсетіп журген тамаша
TyMa талант халык шеберлеріне
жар салып, касіби oHep жасауга
бәрінін басын косып, Кызылорда
каласында топтастырған да осы ra-
3eT. Касіпкой театрымыз дуниеге
келгенде улы MyxTap Әуезов
«Суйінші, казактын caxHa oHepi Ty-
ЫПТЫ» деп осы Γa3eTTiH бетінен элем-
re жар салып, онын куанышымен бірге, алдаты
шыгармашылык тагдырына мәдениет
кайраткерлерінін жауапты eKeHiH ecKepTKeH болатын.
CoHaH бері онердін кай саласынын болса да caH алу-
aH жаналыктары жалпак журтка eH алдымен осы ба-
сылым аркылы жетіп жатады. Калын окырман кауым
oHep жайлы тунныш созді де, онын коркемдік жай-
жапсарын тусіндірген ойлы талдау материалдарды да
осы Γa3eTTiH бетінен KyTeTiHi аян.
«EΓeMeH Ka3aKcTaH» беріміздін асыга кутіп окитын Γa3eTiMi3. Биыл біз.
«EΓeMeH Ka3aKcTaH» Γa3eTiHe жазыллы. Γa3eT ужымына жана шығармашылых
кукык kopray органдары кызметі жонінде макалалар KyTeMi3.
Батыс Ka3aKcTaH облыстык juki icTep баскармасын
Елдікті, егемендікті Ty eTKel
de қазақ отбасының жазылу
«EΓeMeH Ka3aKcTaHΓa» барлык байланыс болімшелерінде,
және когамдык таратушылар аркылы жазылута болады.
тиын. Жеке жазылушылар Yшін индексі 65392; бір жылга ж
Касіпорындар, мекемелер MeH үйымдар үшін индексі 1539
Улы OTaH СОРЫСЫНЫМ ардагерлері Превидент Жарлытына opan
мугалімдер «EΓeMeH Ka3aKcTaHΓa» 50 проценттік жені
3152 TeHΓe 28 тиын.
АҚШ-тын, бірінші
Америка елшілігінін кыз-
меткерлері катысты. Жет-
кіншек косемдер ассоциация-
сы жетекшілерінін opTa жасы
15-22. Ассоциация курыл-
ΓaH күннен бері oTKeH ym жа-
рым жылдын ішінде осынау
үкіметтік eMec үйымға eKi
КЖКА-нын президенті OH
epicreyi
ханымы Казақстанда
мыннан acTaM жастар кірді.
жеті жасар студент Элия Te-
лемтаева X. Клинтонта 03 ac-
социациясынын міндеттері
жайында айтып берді. Онын
HeΓi3Γi максаты нарык-
катынастардын
жагдайында жастардын же-
текшілік касиетін ашу.
Содан coH АКШ-тын
бірінші ханымы республика
мемлекеттік муражайында
Карашанын 12-ci KyHi X.
(5-бет).
Клинтон MeH республикалык
«Бебек» балалар корынын
президенті Capa Назарбаева
ушінші халыкаралык «Эйел
және саясат» конференциясы
жумысына катысады. Онда
АКШ-тын бірінші ханымы
баяндама жасап, Орталык
аймагындары эйелдердін
жагдайын K03 алдына калай
Есенкул БЕКБОЛАТОВА,
Ka3aK акпарат aΓeHTTiΓiHiH
тілшісі.
келтіретінін opTaΓa салады.
CypeTTi TycipΓeH Б. БУЗИН.
«TypKicTaH: кеше, бугін,
Ашык аспан астындагы
жасыл жумак (6-бет).
(8-бет).
Ap алдында Ke3iM жок
тык
болды.
epTeH»
дірдектеген
Карашанын 11-i күні кеш-
KiciH АКШ Президентінін 3a-
йыбы Хиллари Родхэм Клин-
ToH Алматыга келді. Ол ТМД-
HIR біркатар елдерін аралау
сапарында жур. Элемде оны
белгілі кукык корғаушы 3aH-
Γep, KoΓaM кайраткері ретінде
біледі. Американын бірінші
ханымынын Ka3aKcTaHΓa келуі
АКШ-тын бурынғы KeHec
мемлекеттеріне олардын де-
мократиялык e3ΓepicTepiHe
колдау KopceTeTiHiH паш eTy
деп багалаута болады.
Әуежайдан мейман бірден
№ 55 opTa мектепке тартты.
Мунда «Казақстаннын жет-
кіншек косемдері» ассоциа-
циясынын (КЖКА) бір топ
студенттері катыскан "ДӨН-
гелек устел басындагы энгіме
erin жатыр еді. Ассоциация 03
жумысынын HeΓi3iHe шекірт-
басшылыкка даярлаудын
«Жастар жастарды окытады»
атты принципті ypaH eTKeH
Калифорния YARICIH алган бо-
Топтын Топтын ынта-зейніазамат-
тык білім беру саласындары
басшылык eTyΓe уйренуге
аударылган-ды. АКШ yKiMeTi
ассоциация кызметінін кейбір
турлерін каржыландырды.
Устіміздегі жылдын сауірінде
ЮСАИД Казақстанда «Жер
MeH мелдір озендер күні» атты
экологиялыкшаралароткзуге
каржы белді. OΓaH еліміздегі
(2-бет).
Бугінгі немірде:
Порменді іс-эрекет
Касиет кайнары (3-бет).
Егемендік жане TiA саяса-
(4-бет).
латын.
ты
EVEMEN
kazaketah
1997
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
OUR LIFE
Monthly, published by Ukrainian National Women's League of America
JANUARY 1998
Editor: TAMARA STADNYCHENKO
First Lady
of the United States,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
"YOU ARE OUR SPARK"
The First Lady in Lviv
by MARTA ZIELYK
Marta Zielyk holds the position of Diplomatic interpreter at the State Department. She is not a political appointee. All views, thoughts and ideas
expressed in this article are her own and do not reflect the views of the Office of the First Lady or any other body of the US government.
Lviv welcomed the First Lady of the United
democracy. The second message was that democracy
States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, with the warmth and
is meaningless without the full and equal participation
enthusiasm characteristic of this western center of
of women.
Ukrainian culture, thought and education, more than
Following seven days of visits to Kazakhstan,
making up for the autumn drizzle, snow and slush
Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan and Russia, the First Lady's
which accompanied her three day visit.
plane landed on the military side of the small Lviv
Mrs. Clinton came to Ukraine to deliver
airport amid the glare of Ukrainian TV lights late in
messages to the people of Ukraine in general and to
the evening of November 16, 1997. Waiting for her
the women of Ukraine in particular. The first message
were not only the newly named Minister of Justice of
was that the United States is a steadfast friend of
Ukraine, Ms. Susanne Stanyk, the Mayor or the city of
Ukraine, and can be counted on to stand with Ukraine
Lviv Vasyl Kuybida and his wife, the governor of the
as it struggles along the often rocky road towards solid
Lviv oblast Mykhailo Hladiy and his wife, but also the
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First Lady of Ukraine (or, as she prefers to be called,
Mrs. Clinton was greeted by Rabbi Mordechai Bald
"the wife of the president" "druzhyna presidenta"),
and his wife Sara American citizens who had
Mrs. Ludmilla Kuchma. Indeed, Mrs. Kuchma was the
emigrated to Ukraine to revive the community and the
official hostess for Mrs. Clinton during her visit to
synagogue and to establish a school where young
Lviv. As is traditional, Mrs. Clinton was greeted by
Jewish children can learn the basics of their faith. At
young women in Ukrainian costumes, holding bread
the synagogue, packed with the faithful, Mrs. Clinton
and salt. Needless to say, I was also waiting for the
was greeted by the enthusiastic singing of the children
First Lady on the tarmac of the Lviv airport that
of the Lviv Jewish School. The First Lady spoke
evening I was to be her official interpreter
about the need for religious tolerance and how pleased
throughout her stay in Ukraine.
she was to see so many smiling faces among those
Following a quiet evening in the Hotel Dnister
who had come to see her and to bring evidence of the
just steps from St. George's Cathedral, the First Lady
fact that they have indeed been practicing their faith in
began her first full day in Lviv with a tour of the Neo-
freedom. Although Mrs. Kuchma was unable to attend
Natal Center of the Lviv oblast Clinical Hospital. She
the event at the Gilad synagogue, the Ukrainian
had a chance to observe the use of US donated medical
government was represented by the Mayor of Lviv and
the Ukrainian Justice Minister.
equipment, particularly critically needed incubators.
She greeted the doctors and nurses who work to save
By the time the First Lady left the synagogue,
the lives of prematurely born and other medically-at-
it was way past lunchtime, yet she had another very
risk babies in the region. Following the tour, the First
important event scheduled before she could rest. She
Lady took part in a discussion led by Dr. Olha Detsyk,
traveled by motorcade to the newly unveiled
head of the Neo-Natal Center. The audience included
"Memorial to the victims of communist crimes" or
doctors, nurses, other medical personnel, medical
"Pamyatnyk zhertvam koministychnykh zlochyniv". It
students and parents and children whose lives had
was here under a cold, rainy sky, that the residents of
been saved by treatment received at the Center.
Lviv had a chance to see the First Lady in person.
Although Dr. Detsyk spoke in glowing terms about the
Many in the US delegation had feared that the bad
life-saving results of the part-nership between US and
weather would keep people away from the monument.
Ukrainian hospitals, the point was very movingly
They needn't have worried. According to local militia
brought home by a young mother who spoke about her
estimates, the crowds that gathered at the monument
personal experience.
numbered close to two thousand. Sharing the stage
Anna Vihlinska's daughter was born in the
with the Justice Minister and the Mayor of Lviv, the
27th week of her pregnancy and weighed only 900
First Lady listened to the remarks of Ivan Hel, one of
grams (less than one pound). Thanks to a donated
those who had survived repressions at the hands of the
mobile incubator, the tiny baby was brought from a
Soviet authorities and who spoke with the expected
small town in the Lviv oblast to the Neo-Natal Center
vehemence of a dissident who had been imprisoned for
and ultimately survived. The mother pointed to the
his outspoken criticism of the Communist government
beautiful, blond haired three year old who was sitting
and its attempt to eradicate the nation of Ukraine.
When Mrs. Clinton took the stage, she spoke
quietly on her father's lap and said she was grateful for
three things. "First, I am grateful to God for blessing
of her admiration for the Ukrainian people and for the
me with a wonderful daughter. Second, I am grateful
spirit of the Ukrainian-Americans who "even when it
to the many doctors and nurses who cared for my
was hard, always had faith that one day you would
baby. They didn't even know me and yet they did
triumph." On behalf of the President of the United
everything they could do to help my daughter. And
States, she sent those assembled a political message,
finally, I am grateful to the people of the United States
assuring them "in your fight for freedom, in your fight
whose help gave my baby life." Mrs. Clinton (wiping
for democracy, the American people will stand with
away her tears along with almost everyone in the
you." She spoke of the voices of freedom that we must
audience) spontaneously leaned over to give the young
all listen to, the voice of those whom the monument
woman a heartfelt hug. It was at that moment that
honors. "I hear these voices of freedom," she said, "in
many of those present realized the true meaning of the
the legacy of the millions who lost their lives in the
"US-Ukrainian partnership".
famines imposed by Stalin - those 'harvests of sorrow'
After their tour of the hospital, the First Lady
in the story of an infant whose family was banished
and her delegation visited the Beth Aron of Israel com-
to Siberia, her three brothers killed simply for
munity which had gathered at the Gilad synagogue.
advocating an independent Ukraine." She spoke of the
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imperative to build a civil society, a theme to which
Center where they tried their hands at cleaning a
she returned many times throughout her stay in Lviv,
portion of an icon which is part of a large church
saying that "if we want democracy to thrive, then we
iconostasis from the 17th century. Donning white lab
must build a civil society where democratic values live
coats, the two First Ladies worked intently with cotton
in our hearts and our minds, where people stand up for
swabs, cleaning off a tiny section of an icon under
what's right, and where the rule of law, not the rule of
powerful magnifying glasses under the guidance of the
crime and corruption, prevails." She ended her
Icon Restoration Center, Myroslav Otkhovych
remarks as her husband had when he delivered a
(coincidentally, the brother of the director of the
speech at the Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv in
National Museum).
May 1995 with the words "Slava Ukraini". Later,
The final stop of the day for Mrs. Clinton was
Ukrainian radio reports would praise the First Lady's
a tour of St. George's Cathedral, a church which has a
flawless Ukrainian pronunciation of these words. To
prominent place in the memories of countless
the sounds of enthusiastic applause, Mrs. Clinton
Ukrainian-Americans who were forced to flee their
surprised those who came to see her by "working the
Western Ukrainian homeland during WWII. Again
ropeline" -- that is, coming down from the stage,
accompanied by Mrs. Kuchma, the First Lady of the
wading into the crowd to shake hands and exchange
United States was greeted by the acting head of the
greetings with the people. Still under the influence of
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Bishop Lubomyr
the powerful words of support and friendship which
Husar, who welcomed the ladies to the cathedral. Dr.
Mrs. Clinton had just delivered, those who were lucky
Boris Gudziak, Vice Rector of the Lviv Theological
enough to be in the front rows reached out to shake her
Academy, guided the tour through the cathedral,
hand, to tough her face some thrust small gifts, an
conveying to the members of the group that they were
embroidered "rushnyk" into her hands; others broke
entering God's home, a sacred and special place. With
into a spontaneous rendition of "Mnohaya lita".
admirable brevity and economy of words, Dr. Gudziak
The First Lady then returned to the Dnister
gave the First Ladies an overview of the Ukrainian
Hotel where she was rejoined by Mrs. Kuchma who
Greek Catholic Church its historical beginnings, its
hosted a lunch for her US counterpart and the US
troubled times during the Soviet era when it went
delegation. While the guests were arriving, the two
underground, and its rebirth following the breakup of
First Ladies had a chance to get to know each other
the Soviet Union. The First Ladies were taken to the
during a tête-á- tête in the hotel's "White Room", then
crypt where three giants of the Ukrainian Greek
proceeded to the dining room which had been
Catholic Church are buried: Metropolitan A. Shep-
decorated especially for this festive lunch with works
tytsky, Patriarch Y. Slipyj and Bishop V. Sterniuk.
of artists from the Lviv region, courtesy of the newly
During her visit to the cathedral, Mrs.
opened Lviv Palace of Contemporary Art. During
Clinton had the opportunity to meet three priests who
lunch, Mrs. Clinton had the opportunity to chat with
had been imprisoned for their beliefs and who
Mayor Kuybida and with Governor Hladiy. Mrs.
described their experiences working for the
Clinton seemed especially taken with Mrs. Stanyk. As
clandestine church. A Basilian nun presented both
mothers, lawyers and women who are very active in
First Ladies with embroidered blouses. At St.
the political life of their respective countries, the two
George's, the two First Ladies also met a group of
seemed to find much in common. Mrs. Stanyk, a tall,
mentally and physically handicapped children from the
elegant woman with perfect command of English, was
movement "Faith and Light" and the rehabilitation
quite impressive.
center "Dzerelo". They were led in song by the
History, art and religion, not politics, were the
group's founder, a young Ukrainian-Canadian named
themes of Mrs. Clinton's afternoon program. First she
Zenia Kushpeta. With a never ending smile and
visited the National Museum of Lviv on Prospekt
infectious enthusiasm, Ms. Kushpeta told Mrs. Clinton
Svobody where the director, Vasyl Otkhovych,
how she had moved to Ukraine to work with that
escorted her and Mrs. Kuchma to the second floor and
sector of society which had been shamelessly
the halls containing displays of icons and rare
neglected in the Soviet Union adults and children
manuscripts. The First Lady's party listened attentively
with disabilities, those who cannot help themselves.
as the director spoke about icons and from the 14th
century which had miraculously survived the many
Indeed, it was not only at St. George's
centuries of Ukraine's turbulent history. The first
Cathedral that the First Lady saw North Americans of
ladies also visited the museum's Icon Restoration
Ukrainian descent working in their ancestral
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homeland, but at practically every stop along her
the voices of women, the voices of young people, the
itinerary. They were represented in the ranks of the
voices of those throughout Ukraine who are
American embassy personnel who arrived from Kyiv
speaking a new language of freedom and democracy
to help with the advance planning of her visit; they
and then turning their words into concrete action."
were among the volunteers who had been coopted
Mrs. Clinton said it was appropriate that she do this in
from the Lviv population to help with logistics that
Lviv where in 1879 the Union of Ukrainian Women
day; they were even on the First Lady's staff. Their
was established. She went on to praise this
unique understanding of Ukrainian society, of Lviv, of
organization for all that it did to teach Ukrainian
the nuances of Ukrainian cultural and political life
women to better their lives and the life of Ukrainian
were invaluable assets to the First Lady's planning
society as a whole. She congratulated the Ukrainian
team.
people for achieving so much in six short years of
Unquestionably the highlight of the First
independence, yet stated that there is still much be
Lady's trip to Lviv was her appearance and speech at
done to solidify democracy, establish a truly free
the Ivan Franko Opera House on the morning of
market, create a society in whose sphere family and
November 18. Every seat in this recently restored
community life, religious traditions and participation
elegant hall was taken as Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Kuchma
in volunteer organizations reside. The key, she said, is
and other VIPs took the stage. The First Lady of the
non-governmental organizations which any govern-
United States was introduced by her Chief of Staff,
ment that considers itself truly democratic must take
Melanne Verveer, a second generation Ukrainian
seriously.
American who delivered her introduction in Ukrainian.
"This is an honor," she said, that comes only once in a
Mrs. Clinton directly addressed the women
lifetime." The audience was clearly appreciative of
gathered in the opera house, who time and time again
Ms. Verveer's efforts to speak the language of her
applauded her remarks: "You have chosen to fight for
ancestors and rewarded her with much applause. I
women's health, to run for political office, to clean up
cannot presume to know what the First Lady's Chief of
the environment, to start summer camps for the
Staff was feeling at that moment, but if her feelings
children of Chornobyl. Whether you are gathering in
were anything like mine when I was interpreting Mrs.
civic associations, places of worship or even in your
Clinton's speech into Ukrainian, it was probably
neighbor's home, you are strengthening civil society
intense pride at being privileged enough to play a role
and making it clear that the most important person in
in strengthening the relationship between the United
any democracy is a citizen." She lamented the fact
States a country that opened its doors to our
that women are still under-represented at"the table
grandparents and gave them, a life free of Soviet
where decisions are made" and stated unambiguously,
tyranny, a country which allowed us to strive to reach
"Democracy without the full participation of women is
our full human potential, and Ukraine our spiritual
a contradiction in terms. A country's progress depends
homeland, the country whose national anthem we sang
on the progress of women."
when we were children, whose freedom we demanded
Following the speech, 75 special guests,
during countless street demonstrations in the 70s and
women who represented the best and brightest from
80s and whose existence as a "captive Nation" had
among the thousand strong audience, were invited to
given our lives a higher purpose.
the wonderfully ornate Hall of Mirrors on the second
The First Lady began her speech by thanking
floor of the Opera House to personally meet with the
her Chief of Staff for the introduction, acknowledging
First Lady. Among them were women familiar to the
her by her maiden name, Melanne Starinshak Verveer,
Ukrainian American community such as former
and attributing her wisdom, compassion and good
dissidents Iryna Kalynets and Stefania Shabatura;
humor in large measure to her Ukrainian heritage.
Atena Pashko, president of Soyuz Ukrainok in
"Like over one million Ukrainian Americans," Mrs.
Ukraine; and Maria Drach, president of Zhinocha
Clinton said of Verveer, "she has made immeasurable
Hromada. There were also women whose names may
contributions to the life of my country."
not be familiar, yet who work tirelessly on behalf of
Mrs. Clinton joked that standing on the stage
the Ukrainian community of Lviv, its women and its
of the opera house tempted her to sing, but that in the
children. There were women athletes, professors,
interest of preserving strong and warm ties between
artists, designers, rising politicians, members of
our two countries she would refrain. "But," she
Parliament and businesswomen. Their comments
continued, "I would like to speak to you of voices
upon meeting Mrs. Clinton were overwhelmingly
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positive. "You have uplifted the women of Lviv."
WINTER
"You are not only the First Lady of the United States,
TARAS SHEVCHENKO
but the First Lady of the world."
After the reception, the "First Lady of the
Youth is over; chill wind
world" traveled by motorcade back to the Lviv airport.
has dispelled hope. Winter.
Smiling and waving to the crowds, she boarded her
You sit alone in your cold house
No one to speak with
plane for the ten hour return trip to the United States.
No one to take counsel with.
None. None at all.
You sit alone until hope comes
To fool the fool, to mock again,
To blow proud thoughts away
Like snowflakes on the steppe
Wait not for spring to come
To green your orchard and renew your hope
Or to release your wayward thoughts
It will not come for you, stay as you are
And wait for nothing more.
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