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Cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty aims his acid pen at last week's bickering -- and intermittent discussion of free trade -- between Gore and Perot...
...climate of extreme worry about employment prospects, however, NAFTA has picked up an enormous load of symbolic freight. Opponents -- most prominently labor unions and Ross Perot's movement -- see, not entirely wrongly, the U.S. economy being hurt by growing foreign competition, and view NAFTA, less logically, as the latest in a succession of what Perot calls "dumb trade agreements" that have taken a grievous toll of American jobs. Proponents regard the pact as an unavoidable necessity if the U.S. is going to compete with the trade blocs forming in Europe and Asia. Rejection, they argue, would be a futile...
...week's end the vote still looked too close to call. The Administration was picking up a few more votes, but not as many as might have been expected after Vice President Al Gore emerged as the consensus winner in his TV showdown with Perot. The latest predictions from nose counters: NAFTA might win by two or three votes. But if it appears to be falling short, it will lose by 60 to 70, because many pro-NAFTA Representatives will not dare to provoke union and Perotista fury in a losing cause...
...Whitman promised to release her campaign finance records over the weekend, ahead of the deadline imposed by state law for both parties to disclose how they spent the $5.9 million each is allotted for the campaign. Rollins, who had been distrusted by many Republicans since he defected to Ross Perot during the 1992 presidential campaign, may find himself shunned by future candidates. Says Whitman's spokesman Carl Golden: "One thing you can bet on is that when she runs for re-election in 1997, Ed Rollins will not be here...
...rather than adoption? Deep down, we don't want to believe we are each unique, one-time-only events in the universe. We hope to happen again and again. And when the technology arrives for cloning adult individuals, genetic immortality should be within reach of the average multimillionaire. Ross Perot will be followed by a flock of little re-Rosses...