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...Democratic cloakroom in the House has no ladies' room, leaving female Representatives with a hike to the Congressional Women's Reading Room, where there are all of three toilets. Future archaeologists, studying the pipes and bathroom fixtures of Capitol Hill, may conclude that late-20th century America was a fortress of patriarchy on a par with Saudi Arabia...
...before. It was raised by National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, unfortunately without result. But with the fading of visions of a federal Europe, it acquires a new urgency. Today, two potentially antagonistic trade blocs are going up on both sides of the Atlantic. The U.S. is afraid that a Fortress Europe will shut its trade doors. Europe looks warily at the budding North American Free Trade Agreement, which would create a trading zone demographically larger than...
...NAFTA is a Trojan Horse for gullible free traders. It is no embrace of free trade. Rather, North America is fast becoming merely the latest bloc on the block. Far from being a milestone in trade liberalization, NAFTA is a big step toward the creation of a trade "Fortress America...
...rumored that North House xenophobes are circulating a sign-up sheet to form a patrol guard for their fortress and check ID cards--with no frosh allowed. It's not clear what they will do when they happen upon an unsuspecting, hungry first-year, but any of the imaginable possibilities would surely violate interhouse rules...
...bureaucracy is a fortress, the budget process is its first line of de- fense," Richards said...