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...international community is looking to Haiti to see whether the U.N. can force an illegitimate government to yield to the elected choice of the people. Several months ago, prospects looked good. The U.N. had brokered an agreement between the military leaders and the exiled President Aristide; the pact had called for Aristide's return. A force of lightly-armed U.N. peacekeepers, mainly from the U.S., was sent in September to monitor the peaceful transition of power...
Chief of staff Mack McLarty was looking ahead, pressing Clinton repeatedly for assurances that he wanted to fight for the pact in the fall. Such a battle, McLarty warned, would be bloody. Each time Clinton assented...
PLAY FOR KEEPS After nearly a year in office, Clinton has been weakened by a desire to please everyone and offend no one. But as he scrounged for votes, he crossed a new psychological threshold. When Congressman Bob Torricelli of New Jersey came out against the pact, Clinton fired a rocket his way, penning an acidic message in the margin of a speech Torricelli gave last year in support of free trade: "This was written by a man who cared." When Torricelli telephoned later to discuss the note, Clinton refused to take the call...
When one heard French spoken in Sarasota, the subject was often the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The GATT pact would abolish quotas protecting local products, including movies. The American film industry dominates screens in France (and much of the rest of the world), and its producers tell the French: Make movies your people want to see. But for the French, opposition to GATT is a holy war against America's cultural imperialism -- what used to be called Coca-Colonization -- and in favor of small, distinctly savory vintages from home...
...North American Free Trade Agreement passed the House by a larger than expected tally of 234 to 200. Reflecting the odd alliance that the vote on the pact engendered, 75% of Republicans voted with the President, while only 40% of Democrats did so. The fate of the agreement had been in grave doubt, and Clinton virtually staked the future of his presidency on its passage, so the victory was substantial. Critics charged that Clinton used too many special deals to sway legislators, while supporters claimed that Clinton's horse trading demonstrated his savvy...