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Discusses how Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's scrap with Jesse Jackson, along with his dogged `keep on the message' strategy, perked up his awful poll standings in the presidential race. Suddenly a viable candidate; Character questions; Problems Harbrecht, et al.

Analyzes the confrontation between Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. management and United Rubber Workers. Reasons behind the strike; Announcement of the company that it has hired permanent replacement workers; Criticism of Bridgestone's January hiring of 2,300 permanent replacement workers by U.S. President Bill Clinton in order to score points with organized labor; Impact of the strike on the profit of the company; Criticism of the company's refusal to accept the pattern contract agreed to at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., by Labor Secretary, Robert Reich; Laws regulating companies to limit employers' ability to replace strikers for good. INSET: ANATOMY OF AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT.

Discusses the findings of the `Business Week' poll on top business executives' view of President Bill Clinton's handling of the economy. Lack of faith in Clinton's ability to lead; Health-care debacle; Impressive gains for business in Washington, D.C.; Long-term interest rates; Budget; Trade expansion; Corporate America's partnership with Clinton; Influence of probusiness centrists.

Reports on developments in the trade negotiations between the governments of the United States and Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's resistance to the trade concessions demanded by President Bill Clinton; Effect of the continuous appreciation of the Japanese yen against the dollar; Hosokawa's focus on political reform; Trade experts' advice to Clinton to bypass the Japanese bureaucrats.

Looks at President-elect Bill Clinton's first round of economic appointments. Likely candidates; Economic agenda; Likely choices of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen as Treasury Secretary and House Budget Committee Chairman Leon E.Panetta as head of the Office of Management & Budget. INSET: Team players? Economic advisers vying for Clinton's ear.;The....

Discusses how thanks to a feisty tone lacking in President George Bush's recent stump ramblings, the Republican National Convention figures to cut Bill Clinton's 20-point lead. Bush facing an uphill fight; Bush campaign's plan for erasing Bill Clinton's big lead; Predictions.

Discusses how at long last, United States President George Bush is making the right moves in the 1992 presidential election campaign, but to no apparent effect. Bush still lags far behind Bill Clinton in the polls, especially among key voter blocs. What has the Bush campaign worried; Why no one cares.

Reports that is increasingly clear that the presidential race will be decided in the Midwest, where an eroding manufacturing base and stagnating wages give Governor Bill Clinton an edge over President George Bush. People's negativity on the economy in the region; Middle class under siege; Promises made already by the candidates.

Focuses on United States President Bill Clinton's Inaugural Committee's fund-raising efforts for Clinton's second-term installation in 1997. Leery of hitting businesses for cash after the Donorgate scandal; Amount of money the committee has left from previous festivities; Where the committee will come up with additional money.

This article discusses U.S. foreign relations with Iraq under President Bill Clinton and Saddam Hussein. Republicans expressed concern that a confrontation with the Iraqi strongman could lead to a landslide victory for Clinton in the polls and increased executive power.

Discusses the need for President Bill Clinton of the United States to win favorable public opinion ratings from women voters. Need for Clinton to focus on issues that preoccupy women voters, such as health care and employment; Poll evidence that Clinton is attracting favorable public opinion ratings from women; Women as constituency that won Clinton the White House in 1992.

Discusses the reason behind the probable maintenance of Ron Brown as United States Commerce Secretary. Financial and legal problems; Benefit to President Bill Clinton; Debt of $1,90,000 discharged by Ron Brown; Trade mission to India;

Focuses on U.S. President Bill Clinton and his State of the Union address on January 24, 1995. Plans of Clinton to push popular programs under his Middle-Class Bill of Rights, attacking Republicans as extremists, and addressing Americans; Devotion of Clinton to populism; Intentions of Clinton to renew the theme of global economy in his bid for reelection; Proposal of Clinton a tax break of up to $10,000 a year to help middle-class parents pay for college; Call of Clintonites to streamline government, which they hope will appeal more to voters than the GOP'S proposals for shock treatment; Strategies of Clinton to attack Republicans over various issues, during his speech.

The article comments on Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton. The talk focused on North Korean nuclear weapons, combating AIDS and environmental cooperation. However, Murayama's visit underscores how the U.S.-Japanese relations have fallen. Although Japan's trade surplus for 1994 reached $62.7 billion, the U.S. has abandoned efforts to reverse the imbalance within two years.

Focuses on the impending standoff between U.S. President Bill Clinton and Republican Party members of Congress over United States foreign policy. Influence of the Republican party over foreign policy issues; Criticisms on United States-China foreign economic relations.

The author argues that the decision of U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor on September 13, 1994 to drop the renewal of U.S. President Bill Clinton's fast-track authority to get Congressional approval of the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade will affect future trade agenda of the government. In dropping the renewal of fast-track authority, the author asserts, Clinton and his trade team would lack the authority to enter and complete trade accords.

Reports on the reaction of some political critics to United States President Bill Clinton's nomination of former Hill and Knowlton Inc. executive, Lauri Fitz-Pegado, to head the Commerce Department's U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service. Career history of Fitz-Pegado; Primary opposition to the nomination of Fitz-Pegado.

This article looks at the actions of U.S. President Bill Clinton toward Japan's intransigent trade policies. When Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa visited the White House in April 1993, Clinton put economic issues front and center, ahead of traditional national security concerns. Rather than just exhorting Japan to open its markets, Clinton laid out a menu of trade measures aimed at reducing a widening $50 billion deficit. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor is mulling punitive tariffs on Japanese imports if Tokyo's $117 billion stimulus package does not result in purchases of U.S. supercomputers. Reflecting their penchant for targeting specific industries, officials are also planning an assault on Japan's insurance market, hoping to get U.S. insurers a guaranteed slice. U.S. autoparts makers are working to hold the Japanese to their promise to purchase $19 billion in U.S. parts by March 1994. And the U.S. semiconductor industry is banking on Kantor's insistence on an average 20% share of Japan's chip market for all of 1993.

Reports that United States President George Bush, liberated by his campaign defeat in the 1992 election, has launched a final flurry of activity that has broken the paralysis that gripped much of his administration. Why prime beneficiary of late policy blitz may be President-elect Bill Clinton; Somalia relief efforts; Trade; Asian affairs.

Discusses how Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's aides realize they have to seize the offensive in the presidential campaign against President George Bush. Clinton has been put on the defensive by Bush's give-'em-hell assault. Importance of upcoming debates; Comparison to past elections where the Democrats held a big lead.

Discusses how United States Secretary of State James A. Baker III, who ran both President George Bush's 1988 campaign and former President Ronald Reagan's 1980 bid, will give the demoralized Bush supporters some badly needed focus and a sense of mission, but that may not be enough. Democratic presidentiail hopeful Bill Clinton's election to lose; Challenges facing Baker.

The article discusses the controversy going on among Americans on the candidature of Bill Clinton, Arkansas state Governor. Political pros predict that Clinton will roll on to the nomination and, barring another brush with scandal, could mount a serious threat to U.S. President George Bush in the fall. In the view of White House strategists, that's a contest President Bush should win. But voters are still flashing angry messages that should give Bush pause. Democrats fret that the controversy over Clinton's lifestyle and ethics and the 25% negative rating he has acquired while defending himself will give the Republicans a chance against him.

Comments on the U.S. Democratic Party's presidential hopefuls, who plan to make business a prime target in the 1992 campaign. Issues ranging from the Salmon Brothers scandal to the furor over executive pay to the endless bailouts of banks and thrifts; Preview of contenders' campaign themes in Los Angeles, California; Results of a Gallup poll; Prediction of Republican strategists; Views of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton about U.S. President George Bush.

Discusses the reasons why New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton should run for president of the U.S. in 2004. Similarity between the political condition after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. President Bill Clinton; Impact of the possible candidacy of Hillary on the candidacy of U.S. President George W. Bush; Details on Democratic presidential candidates for the 2004 election.