21.   Lake said Clinton would use his three-day visit to make the case directly to the Japanese people about the importance of the security alliance.

22.   Lake said the blowout resulted in a big boom.

23.   Lake said the two former enemies, which opened diplomatic relations one year ago, have common interests in cooperating on economic, refugee and strategic issues.

24.   Lake said he will explain to Vietnam what steps it must take, but declined to specify them.

25.   Lake said Japan will have to present more substantive deregulatory policies than it has shown so far in order to persuade the U.S. to make an agreement.

26.   Lake said, however, he did not expect a major fight from Congress on the issue.

27.   Lake said said there was no sign of an explosion or fire.

28.   Lake also said the United States did not view China as a threat.

29.   Lake said that the United States would push for an indefinite extension of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to prevent more nations from obtaining nuclear weapons capacity.

30.   Lake also said the United States would push for an indefinite extension of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to prevent more nations from obtaining nuclear weapons capacity.