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...chamber filed the FOIAs with the expectation that the EPA will reject them. The chamber will then likely sue for the release of the data...
...Clinton Administration's O.K. to pay Cuba some $20 million for the rights to test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise, he approved it. "We'll do this," he said, "as a humanitarian gesture for American children...
...Case Against the WTO Critics of the WTO range from the fringe to the mainstream, raising concerns about democracy, labor rights and the environment. They reject the idea of having a non-elected body with the power to overrule democratically elected governments on issues of environmental protection and labor rights. For example, environmentally motivated U.S. restrictions on importing shrimp caught with nets that endanger sea turtles have been overruled by the WTO, while laws against dumping low-cost steel in the U.S. may also be eliminated by the international body. Some of the more radical environmentalist groups, as well...
...Environmental and health protections Environmentalists and public advocacy groups strongly reject the WTO's right to overrule measures intended to protect the environment or public health, arguing that the organization puts the narrow interests of business over those of society in general. But countries disadvantaged by such measures often charge that they're invoked as a fig leaf for old-fashioned protectionism. For example, Washington has dismissed European health concerns over the import of hormone treated beef as an attempt to protect less competitive European farmers...
Clinton should reject this agreement and negotiate a way to pay our debts that doesn't compromise our commitment to women's health and reproductive rights across the world...