Word: debts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have little to fear from the 240 Humane Society activists, dressed in turtle costumes, set to protest the WTO's shrimp-export decision. Nor are they worried about the human chain of hand-holding clergy and parishioners who will surround the delegates' reception Monday to plead for Third World debt relief. But scores of "radical jeerleaders" are practicing their choreographed cheers in church basements: "Smash the state/ Let's liberate!" Four Molotov cocktails were lobbed into an empty Gap store in downtown Seattle this month, Gap being a focus of antisweatshop protests. No wonder the city has budgeted $6 million...
...nearly three years, Washington's vote in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly has been in jeopardy because of the United States' failure to pay nearly $1.6 billion in outstanding dues. Although this debt does not threaten our role in the UN's Security Council, relations between the United States and the UN have soured during the Clinton administration as a result of the debt...
...fragile relations between America and the UN make it crucial that the Clinton administration and Congress come to an agreement and quickly pay Washington's dues. America's UN debt has also been a major sticking point blocking a budget agreement between Congress and the White House...
Anti-abortion Republicans in Congress stalled Washington's UN payments until the situation became too risky to prolong the debt any longer. But if Clinton agrees to the compromise, he will no doubt invoke a waiver that was written into the deal allowing $15 million to continue to go to agencies involved in family planning and reproductive health care services. Without this waiver, the agreement would inhibit the ability of family planning groups around the world to provide reproductive health care services to women...
Because Clinton has been given the opportunity to waive some of the agreement's restrictions, the compromise is not so devastating that it justifies prolonging America's debt to the United Nations...