Clinton tells Asians U.S. position strong
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On
his first overseas trip since the elec
tions, President Clinton assured anx
ious Asian leaders Sunday that
America’s foreign policy will not be
shaken by the Republican landslide
in Congress.
“The position of the United States
is certainly just as strong as it ever
has been,’’ Clinton said, setting the
stage for a summit on expanding trade
with Asia’s booming economies.
Organizers hope leaders of 18 Pa
cific and Asian nations attending the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
forum will agree to free trade in the
region by 2020, though China and
Malaysia are resisting.
In advance of the summit, Clinton
was holding one-on-one talks Mon
day with the leaders of China, Japan.
South Korea and Australia.
Disputes over human rights and
trade barriers were expected to be
high on the agenda for Clinton’s sec
ond meeting with Chinese President
Jiang Zemin in a year.
Frictions eased somewhat after
Clinton granted most-favored-nation
trade status to China, and Beijing has
agreed to several business deals, in
cluding a $1.6 billion purchase of
American passenger aircraft.
Talks with Japan and South Korea
were likely to center on trade and
North Korea’s agreement to freeze
and ultimately dismantle facilities
suspected of being capable of produc
ing nuclear weapons.
Questions about Clinton’s politi
cal standing and the impact of last
week’s historic GOP wins followed
the president on a fast-paced state visit
Sunday to the Philippines, the first by
an American president in 19 years.
Before flying to Indonesia, Clinton
“These achievements
have apparently not had
the recognition that they
deserve in your country. ”
■
FIDEL RAMOS
Philippine President
commemorated World War II victo
ries in the Pacific and toured bomb
ravaged Corregidor, the scene of
fierce fighting and Allied humiliation
a half-century ago. The island fortress
in Manila Bay was captured by Japan
after Gen. Douglas MacArthur. un
der orders from Franklin D.
Roosevelt, fled to Australia, pledging,
“I shall return.”
“Gen. MacArthur did return, and
so would freedom,” Clinton said at the
Manila American Cemetery contain
ing the graves of 17,206 fallen ser
vicemen. “Countless horrors lay in the
way, including the butchery of house
to-house fighting in Manila.”
Warmly toasting Clinton later at
Malacanang Palace, Philippine Presi
dent Fidel Ramos sounded regretful
about Clinton’s election setbacks.
Praising the president’s foreign
policy and economic record, Ramos
said, “These achievements have ap
parently not had the recognition that
they deserve in your country.”
Quoting scripture, Ramos assured
Clinton, “No prophet is accepted in
his hometown.” Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, traveling in Asia
before Clinton arrived, encountered
near universal concern about the elec
tion impact, officials said.
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
was asked about the elections during
a meeting with Philippine relief work
ers.
“I don’t know yet exactly what the
message from the voters was,” she
replied. Her uncertainty contrasted
with Clinton’s statement last week
that voters “sent us a clear message
— I got it.”
Commenting on the election's im
pact on world affairs during a swel
tering news conference with Ramos,
Clinton said, “1 don’t expect it to have
any impact on our foreign policy.”
“The foreign policies I have pur
sued, particularly the mission I’m
now on, have enjoyed wide biparti
san support among centrists in both
parties,” he said.
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Election revealed
voters’gender gap
WASHINGTON — If women
voters had prevailed in the mid
term elections, the Senate would
have remained in Democratic
hands and several governor’s seats
would have gone to Democrats in
stead of Republicans.
The election saw one of the
strongest gender gaps in years, exit
polls indicated, as men hardened
their conservative views and
showed more affinity for the Re
publican message of smaller gov
ernment, less spending on social
programs and anti-taxation.
Across the country, men — pre
dominantly white men — voted
heavily Republican.
Democrats sifting through the
lessons of last week’s election arc
faced with a reality that men arc
steadily defecting. In exit polls, 37
percent of men identified them
selves as Republicans, 31 percent
as Democrats and 31 percent as in
dependents. Four years ago, they
were evenly divided between the
parties at 34 percent each and 29
percent independent.
Among women, however, 42
percent said they were Democrats,
roughly the same split as in the
1990 elections.
“This is something that's been
building over the past decade and a
half... as the parties became more
polarized around issues and the
choices became clear,” said Susan
Carroll, senior research associate at
the Rutgers University Center for
the American Woman and Politics.
“Through the 1980s and into
'90s, men have become more con
servative and more Republican, and
women have stayed as tied to the
Democratic Party as they were go
ing into the ’80s.”
In virtually every gubernatorial
and Senate race last week, women
supported Democrats more strongly
than men did — even in the cases
where women ended up voting
overall to elect the Republican.
The GOP takeover of the House
was helped by the 57 percent male
preference for Republicans com
pared with a 54 percent preference
by women for Democrats. Demo
cratic men crossed over more often
to vote for Republican candidates
than did Democratic women.
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