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...Clinton will hold a summit in Washington in late September. And in a cementing of relations with other Western allies, Yeltsin signed a trade treaty with the European Union. The deal involves no direct subsidy but will enhance export prospects for Russia. European Commission President Jacques Delors termed the pact "the most global agreement that the E.U. has ever signed with another country...
...rare case of agreement between the conservative Heritage Foundation and the White House, parts of a report on the Uruguay Round trade pact released by Heritage scholar Joe Cobb turned out to have been lifted almost word for word from an Administration study. When the lapse was uncovered, Heritage rushed out a new report with attributed quotations. Even so, Heritage maintains Cobb's "analysis and conclusions are entirely...
Katherine Coleman was married to an Army major and psychologist. "It's a myth that domestic violence doesn't happen in officers' families," says Coleman, now divorced and living in San Antonio, Texas. Her husband went so far as to draft a prenuptial pact detailing sexual obligations and rules governing outside friendships. She recalls him cornering her in the kitchen or bathroom and not letting her leave until she gave in to his demands. "We argued once for four hours in the kitchen, and he wouldn't let me out," she says. "I had to urinate on the kitchen floor...
Perot also deflected criticism of his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Congress passed last fall. One Kennedy School student, who voted for Perot in 1992 but said the candidate's stance on the trade pact had changed his mind, angrily asked the billionaire if he would run in 1960 so the student would "get a chance to rectify my mistake...
...additional territory and powers. Now that the Gaza-Jericho experiment has begun, Israel and the P.L.O. are supposed to start negotiating self-rule for the rest of the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem. Originally those talks were scheduled to take seven months. But since the relatively easy Gaza- Jericho pact took that long, the second phase will almost surely stretch out longer...