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Le Monde of Paris devoted its front-page lead and its editorial Friday to the continuing tensions between the United States and Europe in the run-up to the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle at the end of November.
The NYT reports that, as part of the run-up to Kyoto, the Clinton administration yesterday invited more than 100 national and local television weather forecasters to the White House for briefings on climate change in hopes of rallying public support for new measures restricting greenhouse gases.
"A break-up of Microsoft would be highly controversial and politically contentious, especially in the run-up to a presidential election," the paper said.
In the run-up to the last presidential election, Clinton's campaign took in more than $200,000 in kiddie cash, outscoring his opponent almost 6-to-1 (Bob Dole, who raised similar amounts of hard money, raised some $35,000 from kids last year).
In the run-up to the Israeli election, a Smith Research Center Poll published Friday in the Jerusalem Post showed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still slipping slightly against the Labor leader Ehud Barak, and Center Party leader Yitzhak Mordechai is continuing to decline.