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Environmental and labor issues must also be addressed. Although the full details of the trade pact the U.S. made with China in November will not be released until China's negotiations with the E.U. have ended successfully, if that pact's environmental and labor protections are insufficient, bilateral agreements on these issues should be pursued along with WTO entry...
...polls and politicians on all three sides of the dispute start rattling their sabers. A powerful bloc of U.S. senators from both sides of the aisle, led by Delaware Republican William Roth and New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, warned the Clinton administration Wednesday that the trade pact facilitating China's entry into the World Trade Organization is in jeopardy following Beijing's renewed threats to invade Taiwan...
...peace process now. The British have shown that they will be reasonable, and the unionists have demonstrated that they are dedicated to a peaceful future for Northern Ireland. The Irish citizens, north and south, wish for peace, as evidenced by their votes in support of the Good Friday pact. If the IRA continues to be the primary obstacle to that peace, its domestic support will wither away...
...next 24 to 36 months." This month NBC and ABC promised provisions to train, mentor and find jobs for qualified minorities as writers, directors, producers and executives. Mfume says the coalition is nearing agreements with Fox and CBS. The ABC deal emphasizes scholarships, mentoring and training. The NBC pact creates a minority writing position on each show returning for its second season. (If Stark Raving Mad is renewed, maybe they'll draw straws...
...nature sure that everything will be better when they come of age--let's go forward. In the former Yugoslavia, in Somalia and the Middle East, America has come in saying, "Make a fresh start!" And those caught in their ancestral rivalries reply, "How can we make a pact with the future until we have made a peace with the past?" During the war in Vietnam, an American culture of the individual, which thinks in terms of years, came up against an older Asian culture that sees identity in terms of a collective and thinks in terms of centuries...