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Bush Discovers Most Out-of-the-Way Place to Send Clinton
President George W. Bush said today that he believes he has found the remotest point on the globe to which it is possible to send his predecessor Bill Clinton as part of a United States delegation. Clinton will join an official American group marking the independence of East Timor on May 20.
"With the next space shuttle booked and the threat of him getting his own talk show, my administration and I decided the time was now to act quick and send him to East Timor," said Bush, who later paused and added, "yeah, thatâs the ticket."
Other possible locations discussed by the Bush administration were New Zealand, Oman and Pittsburgh.
Though some international destinations are further away from Washington geographically, East Timor is thought to be the most inaccessible.
In order to arrive at his intended destination, Clinton will have to transfer planes in London and Jakarta. Then the former president will take a bus for 200 miles, before hitchhiking along a barren road another five, hiring a raft to get downriver and finally making the last stretch into the capital Dili on a rickshaw.
"It will be great to have him gone help out for a few days," remarked one administration official.
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