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This is an election year, so Bush will probably have to keep public pressure on to pass the aid bill. Nevertheless, in his first official summit, Yeltsin accomplished far more than anyone had predicted. If the new nuclear accord holds firm, bilateral arms negotiations, long the meat of East-West relations, are probably now complete, making Yeltsin seem absolutely vital to the promising new shape those relations are taking. In Washington the Gorbachev image is beginning to fade...
...These new roles for women are in accord with church law. But conservatives claim that the "feminization" of the church may be causing the slump in men entering the priesthood. TIME's poll also shows a gender gap in Mass attendance, with women outnumbering...
Ramos, who was Aquino's Defense Secretary during the early stages of negotiating a new military-bases agreement with Washington, shares the blame for loss of the bases and a corresponding reduction in multilateral aid pledged by Japan and other U.S. allies. After the Philippine Senate rejected a provisional accord, Ramos urged the government to delay the U.S. withdrawal at least until the facilities could be converted for commercial use. American officials complain, however, that as soon as Ramos launched his quest for the presidency, he stopped talking about the touchy issue...
...agreement last week for the deportation from Hong Kong -- by force, if necessary -- of all Vietnamese boat people who do not qualify as political refugees. Of the 55,000 Vietnamese migrants languishing in detention camps, as many as 52,000 face expulsion over the next four years. The accord follows a pact signed last Oct. 29, in which Hanoi agreed to accept any boat people who arrived in the crown colony after that date...
Since the U.S. market is fairly open, a GATT accord is expected to spur new exports for American firms while adding little in the way of foreign competition that U.S. products do not already face. Carla Hills, U.S. Trade ! Representative, estimates that a successful Uruguay Round (so named for the talks' original venue) would generate an additional $5 trillion in world output over the next decade, of which the American share would be a hefty $1.1 trillion. It's "like writing a check," explains Hills, "to every American family of four for $17,000, payable over 10 years...