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...nuclear test ban treaty debacle, the WTO failure may usher in an open season on the lame duck President's foreign policy. Clinton's defeat in Seattle will certainly embolden those congressional forces that had vowed to turn down the President's deal with China over WTO membership, putting at least a question mark over its passage in an election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether bad for Al Gore, and the Seattle debacle may, in fact, work to the vice president's advantage: The Clinton administration's tough talk on labor rights...
...world markets. Whether it was bailing out Mexico's currency to protect U.S. institutional investors or organizing a preemptive line of credit to prevent Brazil's economy tanking under pressure from Asia, or pressing China to make a host of concessions to specific U.S. corporations in exchange for WTO membership or leaning on South Africa over importing AIDS drugs from foreign sources that sold them cheaper than U.S. pharmaceutical corporations, the Clinton administration has always been on point for American business. Candidate Clinton may have pilloried President Bush for being too soft on China, but President Clinton...
Earlier this year we supported a term bill increase contingent on a council size reduction. A council which is not competitively elected cannot be truly representative of the student body. The bloated membership means less accountability and diffusion of responsibility, recipes for disaster when dealing with budgets and events. This is why we feel that it is only through reducing the size of the council that the council can legitimate itself in the eyes of students...
...majority of the council recognizes this fact and supports the efforts to reduce membership. But while the council has attempted to tighten its collective waistline three times in the last three years, because the vote would require 75 percent of council support as a constitutional amendment, the strongly supported measures have failed. By taking the issue to the students, the council is hoping to trim the fat once and for all. What was disturbing about the debates on Monday night during which the idea of a council size referendum was introduced was the council members' lack of confidence...
Topics included a nationwide drop in union membership, the closing of local factories, increasing water pollution, and concern about rainforest destruction and international human rights abuses...