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...House majority whip TOM DELAY is planning to wave a red flag, introducing a pro-Taiwan arms resolution on the House floor. Other G.O.P. leaders, including Senate majority leader TRENT LOTT, have also signaled that politics is not right for a China vote this year. And though that may tempt the Administration to back off WTO again, the White House will most likely stay the course. Clinton does not want to send the Chinese home with another nasty surprise...
...House majority whip Tom Delay is planning to wave a red flag, introducing a pro-Taiwan arms resolution on the House floor. Other GOP leaders, including Senate majority leader Trent Lott, have also signaled that politics is not right for a China vote this year. And though that may tempt the Administration to back off WTO again, the White House will most likely stay the course. Clinton does not want to send the Chinese home with another nasty surprise...
...territory's remaining Serb population (given the track record, there is little chance that any non-Albanians would remain in an independent Kosovo). The peace deal that ended NATO's air war with Yugoslavia earlier this year explicitly affirms Belgrade's sovereignty over the territory; breaking that agreement would tempt the Serbs to try and recapture at least some parts of Kosovo, and would very likely jeopardize NATO-Russian cooperation on keeping the peace there. In short, it could leave KFOR's Western ground troops in the middle of a shooting war. Though the "policy shift" reported by the Post...
...voters at two-year intervals, an ongoing series of state and regional elections has provided an ongoing referendum on Schroeder?s. "This series of elections in quick succession is creating a snowballing rejection of Schroeder?s policies," says Sautter. And sooner than get voted out themselves, that may tempt the Social Democrats to ditch Schroeder and his policies...
...Caucasus shows that this law is essential," a Yeltsin spokesman said. Putin can significantly boost his political prestige by swiftly resolving the Dagestan crisis. But if it drags out into another bloody war, it will ruin the election chances of Yeltsin?s anointed heir -? and that may, in turn, tempt the president to avoid the election altogether...