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...with the White House and twisting enough arms to defeat the amendment by a slim 216 - 214 margin. After the House passed the bill, Trent Lott managed to block the cigarette tax proposal by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Edward Kennedy, warning that he would pull the budget-balancing pact off the Senate floor if the changes were approved. "The President is not about to see all that hard work go down the drain, " White House spokesman Mike McCurry told reporters. Thanks to Lott and Gingrich...
...They built the churches; they built the towns." Her purchase of dozens of nonproducing Henderson claims over 50 years probably struck some as more sentimental than savvy. But now her holdings, on lease to Crown Butte, constitute at least 40% of its goldfield--a portion so large that the pact is specifically contingent on her selling her rights to the company so that they can be part of the exchange...
...chief mission will be to trumpet NAFTA's successes as he tries to extend the free trade agreement to all of Latin America by 2005. The President wants Congressional renewal of his "fast-track" authority, which gives Congress the power only to vote yes or no on trade pacts, with no chance to amend them. It will be a tough sell. Although the Administration can show positive numbers from the agreement -- NAFTA-generated trade among the U.S., Mexico and Canada reached a record $420 billion last year -- Congressional opponents led by Richard Gephardt counter by citing 118,000 U.S. jobs...
...voted, his move could be enough to muster the two-thirds majority that is required for ratification. The treaty would ban the use, development, production or stockpiling of all chemical warfare agents and require the destruction of existing stockpiles over the next decade. Many Republicans fear signing such a pact would leave America weak as countries around the world secretly build chemical weapons. But failure to pass the treaty would be seen as a serious setback for U.S. foreign policy, notes TIME's Doug Waller. "The U.S. would join pariah states like Iraq, Iran and North Korea that have refused...
...fact, Yeltsin's aides say, he did not assent to NATO expansion. Russians of every political stripe hate the idea that next July their former Warsaw Pact allies, most likely Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, will be invited to join NATO by 1999. But Yeltsin can see that it is inevitable and is determined to squeeze the best possible deal out of the West in return for grudging tolerance. Russia hopes to make the whole process so difficult that the first three new members of the Atlantic alliance might turn out to be the last...