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Residents of the poor countries and the former communist states are willing to do almost anything to reach the lands of opportunity in the West. Citizens of former Warsaw Pact countries thought that political freedom and the collapse of barbed-wire borders throughout Eastern Europe would bring them the opportunity to move around the world unhindered. Their expectation collides with the fact that many West Europeans simply do not want to encourage immigration into their ethnically homogeneous nation-states. The only foreigners who have a right to live in Germany today are those who have been granted refugee status...
Northwest Airlines Pact...
...Molson's and other foreign beers are little more than half a cent a bottle.) Tariffs will be reduced 33% to as much as 50% on many other goods, including wood, paper and scientific equipment. The agreement will go into effect only if it is later incorporated into a pact among all 111 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that would also provide for free trade in services and especially the hotly contested area of farm products...
...because Perot's views follow no party line, an alliance with him is problematic for mainstream Republicans. From minority leader Dole to backbenchers like Doolittle, many Republicans support the pending North American Free Trade Agreement. Perot denounces NAFTA vehemently, even accusing lobbyists for the pact of "economic treason." On other major issues, Perot is also out of step with consensus Republican positions...
Same Puzzles; Smaller Pieces. The Warsaw Pact has also broken up, with one former member, Czechoslovakia, splitting into two nations. Another, East Germany, has disappeared from the chessboard. The dirty cold war espionage battles in the middle of Europe have eased dramatically. "The information river is westbound now," says a former officer of the Czechoslovak security forces who is now a private consultant in Prague. "Until 1988, Polish agents were trained in Moscow," says Jerzy Jachowicz, a Warsaw journalist who covers intelligence matters. "Now they are trained in the U.S., France and Britain." That new westward orientation was emphasized last...