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...Trade-Pact Rebellion...
...used to work for the first directorate of the KGB, defected about a year ago. But they say Kessler's figures are "highly exaggerated." The defector did have access to hundreds of names, but they included both Americans and non-Americans and were drawn from both KGB and Warsaw Pact files. More important, the great majority were innocent contacts. Only about a dozen cases of suspected espionage originating with this particular defector are being investigated...
What is it about the North American Free trade Agreement (NAFTA) that makes it so Vulnerable, labor and industry group? Even gadfly Ross Perot has joined the chorus of naysayers who continue to advance arguments against the pact...
Mexico had, in anticipation of the economic benefits that NAFTA would provide, embarked on significant environmental policy adjustment. The failure to ratify the pact will not culminate in a reversal of progressive environmental policy but may well result in the delayed implementation of further reforms, both economic and environmental...
Negotiations continued until 8:30, as, according to U.S. bargainers, the Japanese started "backsliding" on some concessions. Clinton was so worried about how the Japanese would present the pact that he insisted on seeing a text of Miyazawa's prepared remarks before joining in a press conference to break the news. He got a text -- in Japanese; with no time to prepare a written translation, interpreter Jim Zumwalt had to read one aloud...