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Lexis-by Ron Fournier, AP, March 25, 1996
Protected by sharpshooters, Hillary Clinton swooped into a military zone by Black Hawk helicopter Monday to deliver a personal ???thank you??? to US troops???Mrs. Clinton hosted a USO show with comedian Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crow???highlight of her trip were visits to two fortified posts outside the US base in Tuzla. Even President Clinton, restricted to base by bad weather in Jan., did not see as much of this war-wracked region as Mrs. Clinton???Riflemen rushed to brush line as the helicopter landed and surrounded her as she walked in the post. Located in a ???separation zone,??? the US outpost nestles between two tree lines???Security was tight-fighter jets accompanied her C-17 cargo plane to Tuzla???
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Still, Clinton is right to claim that she achieved some breakthroughs rather unusual for a First Lady. "She led the delegation to Beijing at the U.N. human-rights conference in 1995," says former Clinton deputy national-security adviser Jim Steinberg, who's not advising either candidate. "And she played a significant role in dealing with refugees in Kosovo." Clinton has been particularly hammered for her claim that she helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland at talks led by former senator George Mitchell. "At no time did she play any role in the critical negotiations that ultimately produced the peace," Craig wrote. But Steinberg says she had impact by meeting repeatedly with Roman Catholic and Protestant women and "bringing the communities together … These were not classic state-to-state negotiations; these were two sides of internecine war."
Though Obama has only been in Washington for three years, he has shown sophistication on foreign policy from his earliest weeks in office. He wowed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with his questioning of Condoleezza Rice at her January 2005 confirmation hearings. He's also pushed through significant foreign-policy legislation—arguably even more noteworthy than what Clinton's done in this capacity—such as the nonproliferation law he cosponsored last year with GOP lion Richard Lugar. Nor should Obama be judged now by advisers who volunteered their services when Clinton was all but assured the nomination last fall. "Those foreign-policy experts who decided not to work for Senator Clinton were bucking the conventional wisdom," says Mitchell Reiss, George W. Bush's former State policy planning chief. "Look at the product," Craig told NEWSWEEK. "His decision making, his judgment." But it's hard to see with all the mud flying now—and the candidates, desperate for any edge, will be hitting each other with a lot of it in the long weeks before the Pennsylvania primary.
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