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Citing what he said is the need to eliminate the "digital divide" between rich and poor, Clinton said: "The people in Africa are no different from the people in America.
"If you give people access to technology, a lot of smart people will figure out how to make a lot of money," he said.
He offered no specifics about how much such a boost in communications capacity would cost, who would pay for it or how long the job would take to complete.
Clinton spoke at a daylong international conference on the challenges of "progressive governance" in the next century.
It brought together fellow political leaders - generally, like the president, middle-aged and middle-of-the-road, but self-declared new thinkers - and academics.
Mexican curators have assembled the largest-ever exhibition of Maya art - 557 pieces in all, including human-sized sculptures, funeral masks and columns laced with intricate glyphs - to show off the richest ancient culture of the Americas.
11-22-99
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