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FOREIGN AID Thriving markets, Clinton says, are impossible without free trade. Totally free markets are a myth, but the Administration's recent decision to adopt "tied-aid" practices is inconsistent with Clinton's support for NAFTA and for a new, freer global-trade regime. Tied aid forces recipients of U.S. financial help to spend some of the dollars they receive on American goods and services. The U.S. has long criticized Japan, France, Germany and other countries for attaching strings to roughly $6 billion in their foreign assistance in exactly the manner Clinton has now proposed. "There is way too much...
...home. The army has been humiliated by its loss of status, the poor housing provided for its officers returning from service in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, and a general decline in its living standards. So it will demand improvements. And it will also insist on a freer hand in dealing with security threats along Russia's borders with the newly independent republics and within Russia itself. "The generals," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, "see nothing but instability inside Russia and on its periphery. They want the government...
Similar skepticism prevails in Washington, where Administration after Administration has pleaded, demanded and negotiated for freer entry into Japanese markets and a reduction of Tokyo's trade surplus -- $49 billion in $ 1992. Reflecting on those battles, most U.S. experts advise caution in appraising last week's election, even if it did downsize the Liberal Democrats, with 223 seats, into the largest minority party in the 511-seat Diet. What the election results suggest, says former Assistant Secretary of State William Clark, is "a voting public that is unhappy with the leadership of the L.D.P., but not necessarily with its policies...
Blendon said it is ironic American physicians are the least satisfied "even though they are supposed to be freer and are paid more than [those] in other countries...
...much momentum that opponents of the treaty might mobilize and prevent it from ever going into effect. The same is true in spades for the GATT talks, which already have dragged on for six years; many experts believe it is now or never. The fundamental problem is that freer trade will wipe out tens of thousands of jobs in noncompetitive U.S. industries like apparel and glassware -- but pushing too hard to protect U.S. interests could torpedo agreements that would give a long-range boost to fully competitive industries...