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...Chinese are justified in their haughty response to American human-rights posturing. They know that if Congress tries to rescind China's MFN status, it will be besieged by frantic business lobbies which are currently salivating at the prospect of cheap labor and a market over a billion strong. Even the relatively minor sanctions imposed by the U.S. over the supposed Pakistan arms shipments hurt American companies more than it hurts the Chinese government...
Growney says he will filibuster any motion to rescind...
Immediately after the September 27 meeting, a motion to rescind the measure was placed on the agenda for the next meeting--when the newly elected first-year and graduate representatives will be on the council...
Clinton and Aspin immediately jumped in to rescind the order, which they had never approved. Any new policies on the matter, Aspin flatly stated, would be submitted to him for review. The next day, Mundy, who had been outspoken in opposition to accepting gays in the service, performed his act of contrition at a press conference. He acknowledged "blind-siding" the President. "I just kicked this one in the grandstand," he said. "I did not adequately inform my civilian superiors of the policy." While many military experts sympathized with Mundy's concern for the impact of marriage troubles...
...unlike the Core, which does not fire teaching fellows it has already hired, some departments, have to rescind job offers, Urdang-Brown says...