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Trade agreements and the tightening of capital markets have opened Japan to foreign investment.
USAT 's headline announces the international "rebuke on [the] test ban vote" received by the U.S., while the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times --which off-lead the story--note merely that "Clinton Fumes at [the] GOP" ( LAT ) and "Fault[s] GOP Partisanship" ( WP ). The Post and LAT lead with the military's tightening grip on Islamabad, a story off-leaded by the NYT and stuffed by USAT .
Regarding the G-7's decision to write off much Third World debt, as long as the money is redirected to social programs such as health, poverty reduction, and AIDS education, the Nation of Pakistan said, "[E]conomic good conduct that requires tightening of belts and good governance is something that the Third World was badly in need of.
The Times lists what it considers the budget's leading features: money for hiring 100,000 new teachers, relief for farmers, more than $2 billion in basic medical research funds, funds for U.S. troops in Bosnia, tightening security at U.S. embassies, replenishing the IMF, and sending food to North Korea.
General theme: It's hard to balance belt tightening and effective health care.