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Labor leaders fear pain rather than gain. They contend that tens of thousands of workers will be laid off as U.S. companies shift production south to take advantage of industrial wages in Mexico that are roughly one-sixth of those in the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. auto industry alone could lose thousands of positions. Mexican workers earning less than $20 a day are already building hundreds of thousands of Ford Mercury Tracers and Buick Centuries in Hermosillo and Ramos Arizpe and shipping them north. Under the pact, the Big Three's presence south of the border will surely grow...
...BOTTOM LINE: Three best-selling bios, all claiming that the Waleses are at war, contend the marriage is over...
Proponents of the law contend that babies should not be exchanged for money as if they were objects or slaves. Surrogacy should be treated like adoption, they say. In other words, a woman is still allowed to bear a child for the express purpose of giving it up to another, but she is no longer allowed to receive anything in return, not even a guarantee of visitation rights...
...that the campaign is not singling out gays so much as drawing a legitimate distinction between the two parties at a time when "the gay-rights movement has become much more aggressive." But gay leaders like Urvashi Vaid, the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, contend that gays are simply the latest victims in a Republican strategy of distraction. "They don't have Willie Horton to kick around anymore," she says. The ad was effective, but its sour aftertaste and the wounds opened by the Los Angeles riots have made it trickier for Republicans to appeal...
Spain is one of the few European nations that must still contend regularly with terrorists. But the Basque extremists, who had threatened to disrupt the 1992 festivities, were severely weakened by recent arrests of their top leaders. Nevertheless, the group showed signs of life last month when it bombed a navy van in Madrid, wounding 13. Although Spain's 17 regions are gaining more autonomy, the national-identity issue remains explosive. Catalans and Basques, who control their own schools, police forces and television stations, envision an even more independent future under a Euro-umbrella. The Basque country, says Guernica Mayor...