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U.S.-DRUGS: Clinton Decides to Certify Mexico and Take Political Heat
Despite Congressional outrage at top- level drug-related corruption in Mexico, President Bill Clinton has decided to certify that the government of Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is an ally in good standing in Washington's anti- drug war.U.S.-TRADE: WTO May Be Hitting Too Close To Home
New efforts by the European Union (EU) and the Japanese government to use the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to force U.S. compliance with global trade rules are producing a backlash against the one-year-old global agency.U.S.-TRADE: WTO May Be Hitting Too Close To Home
New efforts by the European Union (EU) and the Japanese government to use the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to force U.S. compliance with global trade rules are producing a backlash against the one-year-old global agency.U.S.-DEMOCRACY: CIA Whistleblower Says Clinton Won’t Confront Agency
The administration of President Bill Clinton is unwilling or unable to control the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), according to a senior official who was punished for informing Congress about CIA wrongdoing in Guatemala.U.S.-POPULATION: Congress Clears Population Funding
In a rare defeat for anti-abortion forces in Congress, the U.S. Senate Tuesday cleared the early release by President Bill Clinton of tens of millions of dollars in overseas family-planning aid beginning Mar 1.U.S.-INDONESIA: East Timor Activists See Scope for Pressure
The increased political sensitivity here of U.S. ties to Indonesia has given advocates of independence for East Timor more hope of pressing Washington to support their cause, according to activists and government analysts alike.US-POLITICS: Sino-American Relations Remain Sensitive
The death of Deng Xiaoping - exactly 25 years after U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic trip to China - comes at an extremely delicate moment in ties between the world's last remaining superpower, and its most likely challenger.FINANCE-U.S.: More U.S. Workers Employed by Foreign Firms
In a sign of the increasing globalisation of the U.S. economy, a new study has found that the number of U.S. workers employed by affiliates of foreign firms has more than doubled over the past 17 years.U.S.-AID: Clinton Asks for 7 Percent Rise in Foreign Aid Budget /CORRECTED REPEAT/
Seeking to reverse a decade-long trend of declining foreign aid, U.S. President Bill Clinton Thursday asked Congress to approve a seven percent increase in his international affairs budget for fiscal 1998.U.S.-DIPLOMACY: Arms Pact First Test of Clinton Internationalist Credo
Early ratification by the U.S. Senate of the Chemical Weapons Convention is shaping up as the first of a series of tests of President Bill Clinton's pledge this week to keep Washington committed to an internationalist foreign policy.U.S.-HUMAN RIGHTS: Rights Groups Defend Official Who Spilled CIA Beans /RPT/
In an unprecedented action, major U.S. human rights groups are asking the White House to overturn the Central Intelligency Agency's punishment of an official who helped expose the agency's links to abusive Guatemalan military officers.U.S.-HUMAN RIGHTS: U.S. Censures China, Nigeria, Cuba, Burma
In its much-anticipated annual human rights report, the U.S. State Department has singled out the governments of China, Nigeria, Cuba, and Burma as among the worst abusers during 1996.BURMA-U.S.: PepsiCo’s Pullout Leaves Focus on Oil Companies
The announcement that U.S. soft-drink giant PepsiCo is cutting all its business ties to Burma is being hailed as a key breakthrough by activists who say they will now focus their campaign on U.S. oil companies, the largest U.S. investors by far in the South Asian nation.UN-UNITED STATES: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Now that he is back in New York, Kofi Annan must be wondering whether his trip to Washington last weekhis first to a capital city as the new U.N. Secretary-Generalwas such a great idea after all.U.S.-LABOUR: Suppressed Study Finds NAFTA Used to Threaten Workers
Employer threats to move jobs to Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are increasingly common in the United States, according to a study whose public release is apparently being held back by the administration of President Bill Clinton./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ AMAZON: U.S. Proposes Action to Reduce Mahogany Trade
In a major victory for environmentalists, the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton has said it will push for international protection of the rapidly diminishing stands of big-leaf mahogany trees in the Amazon region.U.S.-DISARMAMENT: Clinton Declines Ottawa Bid for ’97 Landmine Ban
Bowing to his top military brass, U.S. President Bill Clinton has decided against joining a Canadian- driven effort to conclude a global treaty banning all anti- personnel (AP) landmines by the end of 1997.U.S.-FOREIGN POLICY: Christopher Blasts Isolationism in Farewell Speech
U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher used his farewell speech at Harvard University Wednesday to assail what he called "a new form of isolationism that demands American leadership, but deprives America of the capacity to lead."AMAZON-ENVIRONMENT: U.S. Proposes Action to Reduce Mahogany Trade
In a major victory for environmentalists, the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton has said it will push for international protection of the rapidly diminishing stands of big-leaf mahogany trees in the Amazon region./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ SOUTH ASIA: U.S. Experts Urge Closer Strategic Ties With India
An influential group of U.S. policy experts is urging Washington to establish closer "strategic" ties with India and resume limited conventional arms sales to both India and its regional rival, Pakistan.U.S.-CUBA: Bipartisan Mission Finds Castro Secure, Urges New Look
A week after U.S. President Bill Clinton announced he was indefinitely suspending tough provisions of the anti-Cuba Helms-Burton law, the first bipartisan Congressional delegation to visit Havana in 25 years is urging Washington to undertake a major policy reassessment towards the island.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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