So United States President Bill Clinton's announcement on 29 September that Washington was prepared to forgive all bilateral debt owed to the USA by HIPC-eligible countries marked another turning point  even allowing for Clinton's reduced political credibility and the difficulty of getting the US Congress to agree...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     President Bill Clinton asked Congress last week for $970 mn...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
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	     On his visit there last month for the IMF-World Bank annual meetings  he met IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus  World Bank President James Wolfensohn  and President Bill Clinton's confidant  Vernon Jordan...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
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            - CONGO-KINSHASA
	     US President Bill Clinton has personally backed a major UN deployment in Congo and is acutely aware of accusations of Western double standards after the huge NATO and UN deployments in the Balkans...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     That alone explains the appearance of US President Bill Clinton  French President Jacques Chirac  Spain's King Juan Carlos  Israeli Premier Ehud Barak  Britain's Prince Charles at Hassan's funeral in Rabat on 25 July...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      President Bill Clinton didn't congratulate Bouteflika on his April election victory but sent him a goodwill message for the OAU summit; the two may meet in September at the United Nations General Assembly...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Liked in the United States  he has maintained close contacts with both US President Bill Clinton and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Speculation about the presidential ambitions of Rawlings's wife  Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings  had reached fever pitch just weeks before the April 1998 visit of United States President Bill Clinton to Ghana...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      The institutionalisation of the new Washington-Pretoria axis started three years ago  when President Bill Clinton and President Nelson Mandela launched the Bi-National Commission...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    President El Hadj Omar Bongo may not have got to see President Bill Clinton or Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (the latter because of an ostensible diary clash) but his 18-21 April visit to the US capital excited Washington's eager lobbyists...