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...supporters and promised to veto it. Just days before, the House had voted to repeal the ban on assault weapons, the top item on the National Rifle Association's wish list, although everyone knew Clinton would veto the measure. Amid the posturing, pandering and juggling of symbols, one sound bite rang true. Each party accused the other of being a tool of the special interests. It was hard to disagree...
...America's sugar growers, how sweet it still is. The industry's profit-enhancing price supports are mostly still standing. The program keeps the cost of domestic sugar at nearly twice the world level, and critics say it takes a $1.4 billion yearly bite out of U.S. consumers' pockets. "When it comes to sugar, there is just no reform," complains John Frydenlund, director of agricultural policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "It's a colossal disappointment...
...that they say about learning a little economics being more dangerous than knowing none? I refer to "Reassessing America's Free Trade Policies" (March 13) by Bradley Whitman. With such a delightful list of dressed-up economic half-truths, one would surely be remiss not to take a bite! Or maybe, just...
...tobacco litigation underwent a seismic shift. In real dollars, the terms of the agreement--Liggett will wind up paying less than $2 million a year over the next 25 years toward antismoking programs, and will comply with proposed Food and Drug Administration rules about marketing to children--have little bite. Any capitulation, however, marks a drastic change. Publicly, at least, the other tobacco companies are hanging tough. "We haven't changed our assessment on strategy, which is that we don't intend to settle these cases," says Steven Parrish, senior vice president for corporate affairs at Philip Morris...
...President Clinton immediately lashed out at a regime he labeled "repressive, violent, scornful of international law." The initial steps he took were relatively mild; they included suspending air travel and asking Congress to compensate the victims' families with money taken from $100 million in frozen Cuban assets. The real bite came, however, with Clinton's sudden support for the Helms-Burton bill, which will probably pass Congress this week. The President had been resisting the bill, but Castro ordered the planes shot down during an election year, and Clinton feels he cannot afford to alienate Cuban Americans in the crucial...