In a message dated 5/4/99 3:48:19 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Japan Recession Stifles Trade Climate, if Not Summit Talk President Clinton and Japan's Prime Minister professed to be in fundamental agreement on strategies to pull Japan out of a seven-year-long economic slump. But their daylong meeting underscored how many of Clinton's once-ambitious economic initiatives with Tokyo have been sunk by the Japanese recession. http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/050499japan-us.html ----- >>
Good morning. Here are summaries of today's top international news from The New York Times on the Web. ----- NATO Air Attacks on Power Plants Cross a Threshold Broadening the scope of its air strikes, NATO attacked Yugoslavia's electrical system, cutting off power to millions of civilians as well as military units in the field. http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/050499kosovo-nato.html ----- Russian Delivers Kosovo Plan to Clinton President Clinton held an extended discussion with the Russian special envoy for the Balkans, but the White House remained pessimistic about the prospect of a deal anytime soon to end the conflict in Kosovo. http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/050499kosovo-prexy.html ----- Japan Recession Stifles Trade Climate, if Not Summit Talk President Clinton and Japan's Prime Minister professed to be in fundamental agreement on strategies to pull Japan out of a seven-year-long economic slump. But their daylong meeting underscored how many of Clinton's once-ambitious economic initiatives with Tokyo have been sunk by the Japanese recession. http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/050499japan-us.html ----- Moscoso's Election Marks Pivotal Point for Panama For more than 20 years, Mireya Elisa Moscoso lived in the shadow of a man 45 years her senior who, she says, even told her how to wear her hair. But by the side of that man, Panama's three-time president, Arnulfo Arias, she also gained a political schooling that helped transform her into "Senora Presidenta." http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/americas/050499panama-moscoso.html ----- Afrikaners Have a Dream, Very Like the Old One The 600 people of Orania are so committed to keeping blacks out that they are even willing to do all their own work, including cleaning and gardening, jobs that many white South Africans have never done for themselves. http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/050499safrica-whites.html ----- Islamic Woman in a Head Scarf Suddenly Galvanizes Turkey Last week, almost no one in Turkey had heard of Merve Kavakci. Now, she stands accused of nothing less than trying to destroy the nation, and Turks are talking of little else. http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/turkey-politics.html ----- Colombia and Guerrillas Agree to Start Peace Talks After more than six months of on-again, off-again discussions, the government and the main left-wing guerrilla group announced they had agreed not only to begin formal peace negotiations, but also to invite international observers to sit in on the talks. http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/colombia-rebels.html ----- To view today's articles with your personal search terms or to sign up for personal search, see http://www.nytimes.com/partners/iib/services/personalsearch.html ----- You received these headlines because you requested The New York Times Direct daily e-mail service. To cancel delivery or change delivery options, see http://www.nytimes.com/nytdirect -----
