Presswatch: The Great Escape
Corry, John
What kind of pathetic answer is that, her critics demanded to know. If Absolute Power, directed by Clint Eastwood, is anything to go by, it's quite a sensible one. Absolute Power opens with a...
...For one thing, the Pope was in Nigeria on a long-scheduled visit, when Clinton dropped in almost next door in Ghana...
...He said the United States had not done enough to prevent genocide there in um: hundreds of thousands, mostly Tutsis, were slaughtered...
...If anyone should apologize it should be the African chiefs...
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...Many of them accompanied him on his trip, and it is into their hands he has delivered much of the making of African policy...
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...The press secretary said the president had grown alarmed when he saw a woman who had fallen, and he was afraid she might be trampled...
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...should apologize for slavery was "rubbish...
...Jesse Jackson had asked him to do it...
...It is unlikely any Ugandan ever reached America, or Europe, as a slave: Uganda was a long way from the slave route...
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...Bwana Sam wanted to blend in, but the temperature in Ghana was ioo degrees, and he must have been terribly uncomfortable...
...When an exuberant crowd of Ghanians had pressed in on him in Accra, Clinton lost his composure...
...Clinton and executive privilege he had said, "All I know is—I saw an article about it in the papers today...
...The White House insisted the timing of the trip had nothing to do with Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, or Kathleen Willey, but it had been planned for August or September, and it was obvious it had been cobbled together in a hurry...
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...But as Bwana Sam reported, with an appropriate touch of asperity, Clinton refused to reply...
...The likely candidate was Susan Rice, the feckless assistant secretary of state for African affairs, but she insisted she had nothing to do with it Meanwhile the Washington Post quoted Jackson...
...Never again, they said, can there be another Rwanda...
...The Washington Times's Strobel seems to be the only reporter who noted that...
...The highest ranking black officer in South Africa, the chief of Ghana's defense staff, the Mozambique defense minister, the Liberian commanding general, the deputy commander of the Zimbabwe army, and most of the top echelon of the Nigerian army were among them...
...At this point, the Secret Service men outside the door burst in, see this woman physically threatening their president, and, as they're trained to do reflexively, shoot her dead...
...What's an African trip for, anyway, if not to escape all that nonsense...
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...Clinton did the decent thing when he tried to make amends in his speech...
...And the only newspaper to even mention the meeting was the Washington Times...
...As Museveni explained, "African chiefs were the ones waging war on each other and capturing their own people and selling them...
...Nonetheless Bwana Sam did remember he was ABC's White House correspondent, and he showed that while Bill Clinton could run, he still couldn't hide...
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...When U.S officials briefed reporters on Clinton's trip, Jackson helped them...
...commander who was in Rwanda then has said this would not have happened if he had been allowed to intervene, and almost certainly that was true...
...On the other hand, Clinton was not addressing Africans in his speeches so much At least Bill Clinton was right to apologize to Rwanda...
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...But the Congressional Black Caucus and its allies disapprove of Nigeria, and so the White House showed no interest...
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...The problem is we can no longer tell if he's lying on purpose or unintentionally, or if he believes what he says, or if anything he says or does has any meaning at all...
...But the Ugandans must have wondered why Clinton was going on about the slave trade...
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...But things get a little rough and she slaps his face—as Kathleen Willey wanted to do...
...The Golden Tulip, the biggest and perhaps best hotel in Accra, the capital, was owned by Libyans, and that would not do...
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...Clinton, his face contorted in anger, raged at the crowd to get back, as ferociously pounding drums seemed to lend it momentum...
...Willey was wise to restrain herself...
...The press did not pay much attention, but it should have...
...In Ghana, for example, he denounced military dictatorship, and praised President Jerry Rawlings...
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...Still, he probably was happy to leave—he could put an embarrassing incident behind him...
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...Diplomatic niceties, as well as good sense, meant that he should have waited...
...Rwanda was not a trendy cause, and there was no political will...
...And as Warren Strobel of the Washington Times reported, two days before Clinton spoke, Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, had said the idea that the U.S...
...Absolute Power opens with a late-night rendezvous between President Richmond (Gene Hackman) and the young, attractive wife of one of his major campaigndonors—a Shelia Lawrence type...
...Meanwhile, as the New York Times has reported (and very seriously, too), he also has been acting as Clinton's spiritual adviser...
...He said the president had recognized "the historical immorality in the relationship" between the United States and Africa...
...He pushes her roughly down to crotch level—the Monica Lewinsky position...
...The president's eleven-day, or maybe twelve-day trip (it depends on who's doing the counting) was designed to get him away from all the unpleasantness at home, but Donaldson asked him about executive privilege...
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...Moreover, Africa knows him best not as President Rawlings, but as Flight Lieutenant Rawlings, the rank he has self-consciously clung to for most of the last twenty years...
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...The next day, in Uganda, other reporters tried again, and the president stiffed them too...
...The Wall Street Journal reported that after Clinton left Ghana, he phoned President Charles Taylor of Liberia, one of Africa's premier thugs, and chatted with him for 30 minutes...
...So Clinton left Ghana after only eight hours...
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...Apparently Rawlings is now an inspiration to all Africa...
...He also warned reporters against a "preoccupation with the semantics of an apology...
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...Clinton's close advisers and friends have described as private bursts of temper...
...His African speeches reflected that...
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...Presumably that meant Clinton really had apologized, although in those murky waters who knows...
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...As Clinton said, "Today, Ghana lights the way for democracy...
...and as the Journal also reported, "That is what Jesse Jackson does these days...
...The last white guy to show up in Africa in a bush jacket was Stewart Granger when he made King Solomon's Mines...
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...Whatever the case, Clinton was on firmer ground when he spoke in Rwanda...
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...f44 PRESSWATCH by John Corry The Great Escape N o question but that it was Africa: Sam Donaldson was in a bush jacket...
...Well, perhaps, but if Ghana does, it's a very dim light...
...And who knows what a European-American is, either...
...Also, Clinton and his entourage were supposed to stay overnight in Ghana, but it was discovered only belatedly there was no place to put them...
...Possibly that explains the speech Clinton gave in Uganda when he said, "European-Americans received the fruits of the slave trade—and we were wrong in that...
...Mike McCurry, of course, said it wasn't that way at all...
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...The rest of the press did wonder, though, about what Clinton had said: Was he apologizing for slavery or what, and who had written his speech...
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Vol. 31 • May 1998 • No. 5
