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- <title>
- Apr. 26, 1993: Yes, No Progress
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 8
- NATION
- Yes, No Progress
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- <body>
- <p>Clinton and Japan's Miyazawa agree to improve relations--later
- </p>
- <p> Superficially at least, it was a big advance over the last
- time Japanese Premier Kiichi Miyazawa met with an American
- President: there were no digestive mishaps, and by quoting the
- song Yes! We Have No Bananas, Miyazawa made light of Bill
- Clinton's remark to Boris Yeltsin that Japanese say yes when
- they mean no. As for substance, however, Clinton's first
- U.S.-Japanese summit did not mark much of a change in the
- relations between the two countries. "Let's not paper this
- over," said Clinton. "There are differences still between the
- Prime Minister and me." Japanese markets, he insisted, "must be
- more open."
- </p>
- <p> Miyazawa, standing nearby, didn't flinch. As expected, he
- suggested that a piece of his government's recent $116 billion
- stimulus package would end up paying for American-made goods
- (Clinton seemed underwhelmed), but he stood firm against
- "managed trade." Whether or not the two leaders really thought
- they could reduce America's $49 billion trade deficit with Japan
- harmoniously, they did promise to come up with a detailed plan
- to do so within three months. Of course, with the troubles
- Miyazawa's party is having at home, he may not be around that
- long.
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