it: one last

OW, THE Clinton-
Yeltsin Summit (I'm
just a tad behind))...

Louise Aird
BRIGHT LIGHTS

What an event to cover. | was’
not about to schlepp around and
wait hours for photo ops, so |
hung out in the media centre and
chatted with reporters and police
who had schlepped around.

As you may have heard, both
Clinton and Yeltsin are much more
handsome than they appear on
TV, although a Soviet reporter was
upset by Yeltsin’s apparent
hangover on the fast morning.

This reporter told me, very emo-
tionally, that Yeltsin is Russia’s last
hope and that his taste for vodka is
a major point of concern among
those who see him regularly.

A USA Today reporter discussed
Hillary and Bill's, er, communica-
tion style.

Hillary, who, says this reporter,
is “completely non-maternal,”’ is
indeed a lamp-throwing shrieker,
while Bill sits quietly saying
“Now Flillary, just calm down...”
And that’s just when he forgot to
stop for milk on the way home.

BOR!S YELTSIN (loft) and Bill Clinto

they appear on TV.

The foreign policy debates must
be a real scream.

The dinner at Seasons produced
the weekend's worst insult,

A friend at the dinner tells me
that U.S. Consul General to B.C.
David Johnson spent the evening
outside in the bushes with the
Secret Service.

When J said { would have left in
disgust, my friend said that
Johnson was fold to stand there
and wait.

(Peter Jennings and Tom
Brokaw were also snubbed, USA
Today was not.)

A friend shooting for Reuters got
great footage of Mila Mulroney
while she and Brian toured the
media centre.

After Brian sniffed that Van-
couver’s operation didn’t compare
to the 10,000-person centre at the
Economic Summit in Japan, Mila
snapped, “I'm sick of this. Let’s
get out of here.” What a rude pair.

Of course, she was probably late
for a fitting.

The Washington correspondent
for a German newspaper, who'd
gene on Clinton's Stanley Park
run, told me that Clinton’s jogging
Washington’s streets had created
such a security hassle that Demo-
cratic doyenne Pamela Harriman
had to raise private funds to build
a White House track.

Now the only thing funnier than
Clinton in shorts will be watching
the president of the United States
running in circles on his lawn.

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didn't think | had the nerve. But |
took a deep breath and entered —
the Toronto Blue fays’ locker
room,

| actually had to go through it to
leave the dug-out, where I'd been
growled at by grumpy pitcher Jack
Morris for using a flash and, prob-
ably, for not taking his picture,

(Morris, by the way, 15 the type
who looks at one’s face after look-
ing at one’s chest, In my case, he
was probably looking fora
chest...)

In the locker room office, Cito
Gaston was yelling at someone
and | wanted to see who it was, So
! stood there, feeling like a com-
plete idiot, while Pat Borders, Joe
Carter and Todd Stottlemyre
strutted by in their BVDs — or
less.

And the scoldee turned out to
be a rookie J'd never seen before.

This was the Toronto-Milwaukee
game of the Baseball Classic,
which also featured the Seattle
Mariners and Detroit Tigers, and
for which 96,000 people turned up
for the four games.

B.C. Place wasn’t the best venue
for the Mariners,

Apparently the turf was too
sticky and their main man, Edgar
Martinez, pulled a hamstring. In
an exhibition game.

This must explain why one surly
Mariner refused to autograph the
baseball of a seven-year-old —
who promptly burst into tears.

(A few games later, Detroit beat
Seattle 20-3. Now that’s karma.)

Previous to the game, Joe Carter
paired with Burnaby’s Harold
Park to help the latter win CFMI’s
Variety Kids Farmyard.

During the game, the crowd
cheered when Enderby’s Kevin
Reimer hit a standup double for
Milwaukee, but the Blue Jays got
the bulk of the adulation.

To no avail, Milwaukee won 8-3.

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