Bush enjoys
final foreign
appearance
MOSCOW (AP) — From the
stifling h*■««t of a dirt-floor
si hool room in Somalia to the
wintry elegance of tin* krem
lin's gilded halls. President
Hush was at home abroad, rel
ishing the foreign policy tri
umphs of his waning presiden
cy.
The hand that on Sunday
signed a treat) with Russia
drastically reducing the world's
nut lear weapons stocks had
two days earlier slapped U S
Marines on the hark tor n job
well done in Somalia and pat
ted the heads of destitute So
mali orphans
The president returned to
Washington just before mid
night Sunday from his 25th and
final foreign trip, a 19,000-mile
journey celebrating what Bush
sees as highlights of his presi
dency — using military force to
aid the needy and lessening the
threat of nuclear war
"1 think in terms of how the
administration will he looked
at, 1 think it will he predomi
nantly because of these sin
cesses in world affairs," Hush
told a group of Marines in So
malia at an abandoned Soviet
air strip now used to fly in re
lief supplies to the town of
Baidoa.
In a ran* mood of puhlu re
flection, Hush shared with the
troops his plans after leaving
office Jan. 21) and moving back
to Texas.
"It will lie a whole shift in
goats for mo. away from the
public life that I’ve loved and
back to the private life that 1
think everybody also enjovs. "
Bush said.
Ilis love of the public light
was evident that New Year's
Day as Bush visited with Ma
rines in their foxholes guarding
the air strip, toured an orphan
age in Baidoa. < hatted with hel
icopter maintenance (rows and
sat on a sandbag surrounded by
Arttiv troops while he si oopeil
up spaghetti and meatballs
from a military ration kit
Undeterred by the 100 degree
heat, the < louds of choking red
clay dust stirred up by his
heavily guarded motorcade and
the choppy helicopter rides
that flew him from stop to stop.
Hush shook hundreds ol hands,
posed for hundreds of photos
with the troops and waved at
hundreds of Somalis chanting
'Welcome Bush ”
He was clearly in his ele
ment, ducking in and out of
tents with an "at ease" order to
the troops inside, chatting
about the difficult conditions,
the showers and the snakes.
He was equally comfortable
in the presence of royalty —
stopping for a brief i ourtesy
call on King Fahd in the Saudi
capital of Riyadh en route to
Mogadishu — and in the com
pany of a former communist
aparatchik named Boris Yelt
sin.
Hush's affection and respect
for Yeltsin were on display as
the two men sat side by side
signing the Strategic: Anns Re
duction Treaty I! in the Krem
lin's ornate Vladimir Hall. Hush
smiled at Yeltsin warmly and
pumped his hand several times
during the ceremony and ensu
ing news conference
Mexico’s president
shakes up Cabinet
MKXIC'O CITY (API President Carlos Salinas de Gortan
dumped sum<- prominent offi« nils Monday in a major (.ahinet
shake-up apparently staged to combat i barges of human
rights violations and «>le< turn fraud.
Salinas, who has been pushing reforms of the country's ju
du.ial and eh* (oral systems namod a new attorney general,
interior minister and energy minister
lie appointed lorge Carpizo, the head of the governmental
Human Rights Commission. as the nevs attorney general, re
plat mg Ignacio Morales lei htlgu
The attorney general s office, whose duties ini hide the yyar
on drugs, has consistently led the list of ogeru les critii iz.ed
for rights violations
Salinas also replaced Interior Minister Fernando Gutierrez
Barrios with the governor of Chiapas state lose Pntrocino
Gonzalez Blanco Garrido
The interior minister holds one of the most powerful < abi
net posts, i ontrollmg many state sis urity and elei toral funi
lions and government media policies
Gonzalez Blanco Garrido has iieen heavily criticized tor
human rights violations in his southern slate, although the
number of political killings and religiously motivated expul
sions has dropped signifii anils under his administration
111 the past year, elections have taken place in more than
half of Mexil o. and opposition parties have .11 ctised the rul
ing Institutional Kevolutionarv Party ol fraud
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