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Embattled police chief resigns

Embattled police chief resigns SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER Tuesday, December 7, 1999 By KIMBERLY A.C. WILSON Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper says he is resigning and that he takes full responsibility for the riots that disrupted the World Trade Organization meeting and brought chaos to the city's streets.

A Whiff of Democracy in Seattle

A Whiff of Democracy in Seattle By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Democracy was certainly in the streets of Seattle last week, and a whiff -- perhaps carried by teargas -- even made it into the convention center where trade ministers from the World Trade Organization (WTO) member states met.

WTO flop - another Clinton foreign policy fiasco

WTO flop - another Clinton foreign policy fiasco AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Tuesday, December 7 1:23 AM SGT WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (AFP) - The White House rejected charges Monday the WTO collapse marked another blow to President Bill Clinton's foreign policies amid growing charges that Washington is failing in its world leadership role.

WTO summit ends in failure

WTO summit ends in failure Saturday, December 4, 1999 By MICHAEL PAULSON Mail Author and ROBERT McCLURE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS The world's trade ministers last night abandoned their effort to launch a new round of global trade negotiations, bringing an ugly conclusion to an ugly week.

WTO, Agricultural Deregulation and Food Security

Published in Foreign Policy In Focus, Volume 4, Number 34, December 1999. Can deregulated world markets ensure food security for the world? No negotiator of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) could honestly say that this was the first intent of the agreement. Yet, the AoA preamble lists food security as one of the legitimate "non-trade" objectives of agriculture policy.
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