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...hard to imagine that someone as freewheeling as Bill Clinton could become a disciplined guerrilla warrior. Yet the President has deliberately gone underground in his battle for congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement. That pact, which would tear down most trade barriers between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, is faring poorly under the damaging "air war" of television ads, talk-show appearances and telephone banks designed by labor unions and Ross Perot. So Clinton is fighting back in defilade -- in the congressional districts of 100 undecided lawmakers whom he believes can be won over with special attention...
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...
...Poland ex-communists made significant gains in last week's parliamentary elections. And in most of the onetime member states of the Warsaw Pact, parties dominated by repackaged communists remain a surprisingly significant force in democratic legislative politics...
...Mideast pact alters its global image: whale killer to peacemaker...
Sega, meanwhile, has made a couple of deals that could prove prescient. In one, Time Warner and Tele-Communications Inc. have agreed to create a special Sega channel on their cable-TV systems that would give subscribers access to 50 games each month. In another important pact, Sega has allied itself with AT&T to create a special cartridge called the Edge 16 that would enable Sega Genesis owners to compete with similarly equipped players anywhere in the world over ordinary telephone lines...