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Article: CLINTON WINS POINTS WITH VERBAL AGILITY.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 11, 1994
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Byline: TYLER MARSHALL and PAUL RICHTER - Los Angeles Times
The opening session of President Clinton's first full-scale meeting of the Western Alliance was just getting under way, and the young American leader was trying a bit of banter with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
"I was thinking of you last night, Helmut," said Clinton, who has little experience on the crags of world summitry. He began to describe a Brussels television broadcast he had seen about sumo wrestling, the pastime of 350-pound Japanese men.
Kohl, 290 pounds and conscious of his weight, looked up quickly, but Clinton danced back from the edge of the diplomatic cliff by ...