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Article: Clinton Aides Rebut GOP Criticism of Summit; Officials Say Republicans Trying to Make Political Gains at Expense of National Security
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- The Washington Post
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- May 12, 1995
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President Clinton's top foreign policy aides today sharply
disputed Republican contentions that this week's U.S.-Russian summit
was a failure and accused the GOP of using issues "of fundamental
importance to national security" simply to make political hay.
Clinton arrived here in Ukraine, an example of economic and
democratic reform, after a rocky one-day Moscow summit in which he
and Russian President Boris Yeltsin struggled through an agenda of
contentious disagreements, most of which remained unresolved.
Even before Clinton left Moscow, Republican congressional leaders
were dismissing the summit as unsuccessful and calling for a
reexamination of U.S. aid to Russia and U.S. policy there.
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