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Family Leave. Another veto victim in '90. Bush supports the concept of unpaid leave for employees but feels the government should not compel businesses to provide it. Passage, which is likely, may force the President's hand again...
...appearance before the committee, Webster was also careful to caution that even an economic stranglehold on Iraq might not cause Saddam to loosen his grip on Kuwait. There is no guarantee, Webster advised, that "economic hardships will compel Saddam to change his policies, or lead to internal unrest that would threaten his regime." But in the most comprehensive public analysis to date of the impact of the sanctions, Webster went on to outline a picture of an Iraqi economy that would be badly crippled by next summer...
...speaking to reporters at the CSCE, disclosed that the U.S. was seeking a two-part resolution: the first part would set a deadline for Iraq to comply with previous U.N. demands that it get out of Kuwait; the second would authorize member nations to use "any means necessary" to compel compliance if the deadline is not met. When Bush broached the idea of such a resolution to him, French President Mitterrand declared, "I said yes." But Mitterrand added that there would and should be no "automatisme" about the resolution. The apparent meaning: rather than starting to bomb without further...
Bush has said that the bill would compel employers who fear unjustified discrimation complaints to institute quotas...
Abbas Alnawrawi, a professor of economics at the University of Vermont, said at a forum sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies that Iraq's August 2 invasion of Kuwait resulted largely from OPEC's failure to compel member nations to adhere to its oil production quotas...