Washington Watch Articles From 1998
CHINA AND STARR: COMPETING FOR NEWS
President Clinton returns from his nine-day visit to China the nation’s press still consumed with the twists and turns of the Monica Lewinsky affair.
WHY CLINTON CAME
On May 7, 1998, President William Jefferson Clinton addressed the Arab American Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. It was the first time an U.S. President had addressed an Arab American conference.
A FATEFUL MEETING?
In September 1993 one half of Israel began a peace process with the Palestinian people, the outcome of which, though unstated, was inevitably to be a Palestinian state.
THE BATTLE OF LETTERS
The Clinton Administration’s as yet unannounced, but much talked about, proposal to break the impasse in the peace process may only call for an inadequate 13 percent Israeli withdrawal, but it has already created a war in Washington and deep divisions within the U.S. Jewish community.
PAULA JONES AND THE PRESIDENT
President Clinton returned from an historic African visit to a somewhat brighter Washington than the one he left.
THEUNFINISHEDBUSINESS
In the end, President Clinton did the right thing and deferred to the United Nations Security Council in an effort to diffuse a dangerous standoff with Iraq.