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...selecting a running mate, Perot understands that he cannot repeat his blunder of '92, when he chose the stouthearted but miscast Admiral James Stockdale. Perot would love to have a blue-chip candidate like David Boren, Warren Rudman or Sam Nunn, but so far none of them will give him a tumble. Perot, by most accounts, would be a most happy fella to have Lamm on the ticket, but Lamm has demurred, a stance that doesn't make sense if Lamm wants to build the party and become the heir apparent...
...deal with chemical or biological weapons at the ready in Atlanta, along with more than a dozen scientists from the Nuclear Emergency Search Team to deal with atomic terror. Metal-detection equipment is set up outside all venues, and a sophisticated security system matches live handprints to a chip on your ID badge. The Olympic Village is a virtual fortress: on city streets, manhole covers have been welded down to prevent anyone from getting access to power lines...
...calling the deal "responsive to the views of the Clinton Administration", and her counterpart, Japanese Trade Minister Shunpei Tsukahara, saying the deal was almost exactly the same as Japan's version of the plan. Until the agreement was announced today, U.S. negotiators were arguing that the inroads American computer chips had made in the Japanese market were in jeopardy if no transition agreement could be reached. The U.S. share of the huge Japanese semiconductor market has reached 30 percent, exceeding the 20 percent share established back in 1991 in a trade deal vehemently resented by the Japanese. "A pattern...
...consider what Mr. Clinton has most visibly been doing all year: meeting with parents to deplore gratuitous sex and violence on television; pressuring Big Media into accepting a ratings system and a V-chip technology to let parents control what their kids can see on the tube; embracing school uniforms and curfews; plunging into tobacco row with a machete to stop cigarette companies from luring the young with Joe Camel and the Marlboro...
...reduction in sales from 40,000 in 1993 to 4,700 last year. In response, General Motors recently entered talks with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. to build more than 100,000 mid-size cars a year, employing Chinese workers. Other U.S. employers such as electronic giant Motorola and computer-chip manufacturer Intel have also felt compelled to shift American jobs to less productive employees in China in order to gain a relaxation of the country's trade barriers...