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...take his boldest step of all. Bush Administration officials disclosed last week that Mexico will consider negotiating a free-trade agreement with the U.S. Though the Government has agreed to a similar pact with Canada, reaching an accord with Mexico may prove much tougher. Mexicans fear the arrangement would threaten their autonomy, while American workers are worried that it could trigger a flood of cheap labor into the U.S. Even so, a free- trade accord has appeal, since it could lead to a North American common market at a time when Europe is forging its own economic bloc...
...faltering yen and a plunging Tokyo stock market threaten to choke the country's economy and sap its confidence. -- Brazil learns to live without cash...
Egypt's plans to build villas, hotels and restaurants near the site where Moses met God threaten an ancient monastery, the surrounding environment and, above all, the idea of sanctity itself...
...jungle of people, alienated, disaffected, with no stake in American culture, threaten our capacity as a nation," Enterprise Foundation Chair James W. Rouse told approximately 100 people last night in a speech titled "How Big a Priority for the Nation is Housing the Homeless and the Poor...
...only the perennial bane of the U.S.-Japan trade imbalance but also a widening array of other economic conflicts threaten to poison the relationship over the coming months. During the election campaign that ended with balloting on Feb. 18, Washington muted its complaints about Japanese economic practices. Within hours after the scandal-shaken L.D.P. won a healthy victory, taking 275 out of 512 lower-house seats, the steady tattoo began again. "Kaifu is determined to deal with these problems," says a Tokyo bureaucrat. "They are on the top of his agenda...