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Goal: Keep FoPo Submerged until Domestic Problems are solved.◦ Taxes, Health Care, Welfare Reform
Who is Enemy #1?◦ Answer-No one… “New responsibilities to embrace”
Learning Curve-Tony Lake (NSA) and Madeline Albright (State)
A. Russia-START II Signed◦ Limits Nuclear Weapons US (3500) & USSR (2997)◦ Removal of all MIRV’s by 2003
B. NAFTA-North American Free Trade Agreement◦ Lowered/Eliminated tariffs and barriers to trade between US,
Canada, & Mexico◦ Created the world’s largest free trading bloc
◦ What are the Pros and Cons to this major agreement?
C. Oslo Accords (September 13, 1993)◦ Israel-Yitzhak Rabin◦ Egypt (PLO)-Yasir Arafat◦ Agreement that allows for Palestinian Self-Rule in
Gaza and West Bank
D. Middle East Treaties◦ Israel/Jordan-October 26, 1994 US Forgave $1 Billion in Debt and US agreed to sell
high-tech weapons to King Hussein◦ Wye Memorandum-October 23, 1998 Israel will withdraw troops from the West Bank
Operation Uphold Democracy◦ Sept 95-US orders
Cedras to step down◦ Jean Bertrand Aristide
returned to power◦ 2nd occupation of
Haiti in 20th Century
October 21, 1994 Carter helped w/ negotiations NK agreed to freeze/dismantle
nuclear bombs-take 10 years NK gets oil & $4 Billion◦ Would build light-water reactors
that make it more difficult to construct atomic bombs
Pyongyang-open to UN inspections
Pros-defused a big threat to nuclear war…
Cons-it was a bribe, paper tiger???
July 11, 1995-Formal recognition of Vietnam◦ Issue was POW’s, still 2265
missing (H. W. Bush) Clinton lifted 19 year
embargo on trade (February 3, 1994)◦ Pepsi, GE, Nike, Mobil all
moved in
Former Yugoslavia Problem-”Ethnic
Cleansing” Serbian President-
Slobodan Milosevic◦ Agreement-stop ethnic
cleansing and allow Bosnians, Croats, Serbs-to live together◦ 60,000 NATO Force 20,000 US would help
w/reconstruction