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...markets to China's exports and smoothing China's entrance into the free-world trading system. That will not be easy, in view of protectionist pressures in all industrialized nations, including the U.S. A glaring example of what not to do is the Jenkins bill, named for Georgia's Congressman Edgar L. Jenkins. The bill, which calls for restrictions on textile imports from China and other Asian nations, passed both houses of Congress, but Reagan killed it with a veto...
...their home state, did not acknowledge that he might have lost a bid for a third Senate term. Colorado has turned more conservative since Hart squeaked through to a Senate re-election in 1980 with just 50% of the vote. Polls have given him only a shaky lead over Congressman Ken Kramer, a likely Republican senatorial candidate. Even a victorious Senate run would be a financial drain on Hart, who still has to pay off $3.5 million in debts from his 1984 White House drive...
...first in 20 years in which no incumbent President will be running, and so it could be wide open in both parties. On the Democratic side, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Senators Joseph Biden of Delaware, Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and former Virginia Governor Charles Robb are all potential rivals. None can yet match Hart's name recognition, but for that very reason any of them could become what Hart was in 1984 and cannot be again: an exciting new face. As one political expert notes, the fact that Hart...
...million fund drive for a new Rockwell museum being built just outside the artist's beloved Stockbridge, Mass. This was too close to Reagan's heart. White House Counsel Fred Fielding said he would take the heat for turning down the request, which came from Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte. But Reagan insisted: "I want to do it. Norman Rockwell was wonderful...
...friend of Rockwell's and helped get a stop sign put up so cars would not screech out into the street in front of Rockwell's place, causing the artist to fear that an auto might crash into his studio. Rockwell wanted to paint Conte, but the Congressman never found time, and the artist died...