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...camps opened, and the start of the season is not under direct threat, yet to hear N.B.A. Players Association executive director Charles Grantham tell it, Armageddon is just a free throw away. Says Grantham: "We both ((owners and players)) have atomic bombs. Before we avoided using them by a pact of mutually assured destruction. But now there's a threat that we both might throw unless we negotiate...
...Cuban-Americans could start the refugee exodus again. Despite the squabbling today, negotiators -- who apparently had broken off talks -- resumed this evening. TIME correspondent Cathy Booth, in Havana, reports that chief Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon alleged "the Cuban Mafia in Miami" had jeopardized implementation of Havana's immigration pact with the U.S. by filing suit yesterday to block 1,000 Cuban refugees detained at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay from returning home. What the Cubans omitted: Most refugees who were to be returned to Cuba -- as Havana wanted -- really want to come to the U.S. Today, U.S. officials reversed...
...Sure, Gingrich had helped kill Clinton's health- care plan and nearly prevented an ambitious crime bill from becoming law. Just last week he derailed a minimalist lobbying-reform bill, largely because Democrats were for it. But all that was obstructionism as usual. When it came to a trade pact that was seven years in the making, the part-time history professor longed to be a statesman...
White House officials acknowledge that the Republicans could return to Washington after Thanksgiving and declare that the lame ducks are no longer legitimately able to act in the public interest -- particularly on a pact as vital as GATT. Better to wait until the new Congress is installed, they might say, than let an old one make any more mistakes. Add to the mix the usual round of talk-show shrillness, a few salvos from Perot and the usual White House miscues, and all bets are off. "Anything could happen," admits an Administration official, "because the future of GATT...
Congressional action on an international trade agreement will be postponed till after the November elections. President Clinton had hoped for quick approval of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade pact, calling it a measure that will boost the U.S. economy. But Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings, of South Carolina, stalled the treaty, saying it will ship thousands of American jobs overseas, notably many in the textile industry in his state. Using a trump card, Hollings insisted on exercising his right to hold the bill in his Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee for 45 days. Despite lobbying by the Clinton Administration...