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Meanwhile, the first potential U.S. victims will be coming off Sabia watch next week; so far, nobody has shown any evidence of symptoms. They were lucky the Yale man was dealing with a virus that is not highly contagious. If researchers do not tighten some of their procedures, the next outbreak might not be so benign...
GATT: Last December 117 nations agreed on a plan to revise the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The changes in the global pact would reduce tariffs on manufactured goods, cut agricultural subsidies, tighten the protection of intellectual-property rights and create a new mechanism to mediate future trade disputes. Congress is considering whether to approve U.S. participation in the agreement. Opponents ranging from Pat Buchanan to Ralph Nader warn that the new treaty would require the U.S. to defer to a supranational body on such matters as automobile-emission levels, product warning labels and safety standards. Supporters...
...help prevent that, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent intelligence coordinator Bernd Schmidbauer to Moscow on Saturday to talk with President Boris Yeltsin about ways to tighten controls over nuclear stocks. "We have to tell our Russian friends," said Kohl, "you must guarantee that these possibilities for theft are reduced as much as possible...
...tough asbestos rules released by OSHA tighten exposure levels to the cancerous insulation fibers and mandate rules to protect workers. The tab for private industry: about $360 million annually. Among the savings? An estimated 42 lives, according to OSHA...
...hopes of putting pressure on the Serbs, the contact group had floated hints of the punishment they would inflict on the naysayers. First, they warned, they could tighten economic sanctions on Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs' backers and suppliers. Second, they might expand and police the security zones around six mostly Muslim areas. Finally, as a last resort, the Bosnian government might be exempted from the international arms embargo that affects all of the former Yugoslavia but hurts the Muslims and Croats most...