Mr. Abe Goes to Washington

Some people cite the spat over arms sales to Taiwan and the Dalai Lama s visit to Washington as a fourth dampener on all the G 2 talk.

Abe s visit to Washington in late April is an opportunity to continue to modernize a relationship conceived in an earlier geopolitical era.

In the Middle of the East writes about the visit of Samir Geagea, the president of the Lebanese Forces Party, to the United States and sees that he may be the White House s new choice for a Lebanese president

But no sooner had the parties left Washington after the talks broke down than Clinton joined Israel's then Prime Minister Ehud Barak in blaming the Palestinians.

The six problems that confronted me and others when we arrived in Washington in 1993 have not been solved. The long run fiscal situation remains discouraging, if not as dire as we feared it would become.

We are coming out of 50 years, most unusual years, of history in which we have had a totally mono polar world, in which every compass needle for or against has to be referenced by its position to Washington a world bestrode by a single colossus.