Mr. Obama spoke briefly with Mr. Zardari in an unscheduledmeeting on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Chicago this week to push the U.S. case for a reopening.
By the time Mr Netanyahu joined Mr Clinton for their second, unscheduledmeeting, he had neatly sandwiched the president, vice-president and the secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, between friendly evangelists and appearances on talk-shows.