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May 10, 2000

Trade Groups Petition FDA, FTC for Guidelines on Biotechnology Label Claims

May 9, 2000 / The MEATing Place / Bryan Salvage
May 10, 2000

Republicans May Back China Watchdog Plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top congressional Republicans said on Wednesday they were likely to accept legislation to monitor human rights in China, boosting prospects for passage of President Clinton's landmark trade pact with Beijing. "I prefer a clean bill but the reality is we need some more votes," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer, Texas Republican, told reporters.
May 10, 2000

U.S. Envoy Optimistic Congress Will Pass China PNTR

By Bill Savadove SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador Joseph Prueher said on Wednesday he was hopeful the U.S. Congress would approve permanent normal trade relations for China but said the vote would be close.
May 10, 2000

Bipartisan Proposal Aims for China Trade Compromise

LA Times / By NICK ANDERSON, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON--Putting a stamp of bipartisanship on efforts to find compromise on China trade, a key House Republican versed in Asian affairs and a Democratic trade expert on Tuesday unveiled a joint proposal to answer concerns about human rights and other issues raised by a controversial trade normalization bill.
May 10, 2000

Trade, Not Boycotts, Best for U.S.-China Relations

The Seattle Times / Bruce Ramsey / Times Staff Columnist
May 10, 2000

China: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat?

by Ted Galen Carpenter and James A. Dorn Ted Galen Carpenter and James A. Dorn are scholars at the Cato Institute and coeditors of the forthcoming book China's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat?
May 10, 2000

Union Goes for the Cash: Workers Bring Dispute to Bank""s Doorstep

By Stephen Franklin / Chicago Tribune Staff Writer Defeat seems to be missing from Bruce Bostick's vocabulary. Everything is a "phase," and all of the phases converge, as he explains with unblinking confidence, in a union victory. "This is it. This will be a knife to the heart," says the muscular, middle-age worker from an Ohio steel mill as he details a union strategy.
May 10, 2000

Biotech Activists, 05/08/00: U.S. Government Reseachers Find "Mad Deer Disease," Like Mad Cow Disease, Can Infect Normal Human Brains

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, May 8, 2000 CONTACT: Jennifer Kelly or Amy Leska, EMS 202/463-6670 Public Health and Farming Groups Demand FDA Action To Protect Humans and Animals from Fatal Disease in U.S.