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Article: UNITED STATES: FOREIGN POLICY IS VIRTUAL NON-ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- October 11, 1996
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Jim Lobe
Inter Press Service English News Wire
10-11-1996
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (IPS) -- For the dwindling number of foreign
policy buffs in the United States, the 1996 presidential campaign
is turning into one big disappointment.
Less than four weeks before the Nov. 5 elections, relations with
other nations scarcely appear on the radar screen of the two
candidates, front-runner President Bill Clinton and his Republican
challenger, former Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole.
In the first of two nationally televised debates this past Oct.
6 in the evening, Clinton and Dole spent about seven out of a total
of 90 minutes quibbling about whether Washington's performance in
a half dozen hot spots over ...