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"Last year when I introduced the ABC bill, it was the first time since Nixon vetoed the Child Care Provision Act that a piece of child care legislation has been introduced in Congress," says Rep. Dale E. Kildee (D-Mich.), co-sponsor of the ABC Bill.
-- Poland will not only hold free elections for the upper house of parliament this month but, in a little noted provision of its pact with Solidarity, will also have a popular election for President in six years.
Washington unsheathed the newest weapon in its trade arsenal: a law requiring the U.S. Trade Representative to single out countries that systematically restrict American access to their markets. Encouraged by frustrated U.S. trade groups and corporations, legislators had Japan in mind when they passed the provision -- dubbed Super 301 -- as...
While moderate legislators saw Bush's limited response as a well-measured step, some members of Congress felt that the President had failed to flex the Super 301 muscle firmly enough. They contended that Japanese barriers extended well beyond the three areas cited, to items ranging from cellular phones and...
Apartheid is alive and more than a little absurd in the South African town of Boksburg (pop. 106,000). Ever since rightists took over the town's city council last year, they have been strictly enforcing the whites-only laws that had fallen into disuse. They began by barring blacks...