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Laura Tyson, the top White House economist, was dispatched to Atlanta last Wednesday to drum up support for NAFTA among two groups of business leaders. Tyson's trip was designed, in part, to put pressure on Democratic Representative Buddy Darden and other members of the Georgia delegation who are still not sure how they will vote...
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...
Gephardt on NAFTA...
Though he agreed to keep quiet two weeks ago when a trio of former Presidents declared their support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt was loud and clear last week when he announced his intention to vote against the pact. But NAFTA got a boost when a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that the White House could submit the pact to Congress without an environmental-impact statement, which might have taken a year to prepare...
CAPTION: Do you happen to know what NAFTA...