Word: trade
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...more recently Bold Al has phoned in sick. Last fall, as union-backed House Democrats were working to kill a bill that would have given the President "fast track" authority to negotiate trade agreements without congressional approval, Gore tried to talk Clinton into making his case before a joint session of Congress and spoke out in favor of the bill when preaching to the converted, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. But he had nothing to say on the subject when addressing the national convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O, which opposed the bill. "Clinton went in there and gave...
...transition to Panamanian operation of the canal, which handles 13,000 ships annually, representing 14% of all U.S. trade, is proceeding smoothly. More than 90% of the canal's 9,400 employees, including its chief administrator, are Panamanian. To the question of what will happen at noon on Dec. 31, 1999, when the official transfer is made, administrator Alberto Aleman Zubieta says, "Nothing will change except the name on the checks to the personnel...
...able to protect everyone's interests." This is why the summit opened with demos of various programs that can block out unwanted Websites and E-mail or provide parents with a log of what their kid has been doing on the computer. "This has sometimes seemed more like a trade show than a summit," complained Barry Steinhardt of the A.C.L.U. But that was precisely the p.r. message that the summit's organizers--including America Online, AT&T and this magazine's parent, Time Warner--were trying to convey to the public and Congress. As a Santa's-helper questioner asked...
...enslavers. Velma Maia Thomas offers Lest We Forget (Crown; $29.95), an interactive children's book serious enough for parents. Readers remove slave sale receipts from envelopes and pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges: no hand is clean. Thomas notes that the true voice...
...cleansing" atrocities in Bosnia, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere. Capturing Saddam Hussein and enumerating his evil acts in an international court of law could rekindle lapsed indignation about unconscionable behavior. Saddam's punishment under law, almost certainly a death sentence, would make it clear that moral imperatives supersede oil interests, trade deals or political pacts in dealing with the world's outlaws. DAVID S. HUDSON Harrisonburg...