By JONATHAN D. SALANT, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he is joining forces with the Clinton administration to push for permanent normal trade relations with China.
"If we turn our back on China, rest assured the other nations throughout the world are not going to turn their back on them," Ventura said on 'Fox News Sunday.'
Reuters / Wednesday March 22, 2000 / By Randall Palmer
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Robert Leach is a fairly burly man, but his voice trembled and his eyes were moist as he described how the bank might soon foreclose on his beef and grain farm.
The U.S. Forest Service has announced an agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service to help protect and manage habitat for the Canada lynx, which has just been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. -- USFS
A special World Trade Organization meeting on agriculture in Geneva ended its second day March 24 with an agreement on a detailed program of work and a formalized timetable of meetings and proposal deadlines stretching into 2001.
March 22, 2000 / AgWeb.com / Roger Bernard
While 2,500 farmers gathered in Washington to call for scrapping the 1996 Farm Act, a satellite event took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, yesterday.
And, we're not talking that it was a broadcast of the event in Washington, either.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has managed to win seven co-sponsors so far for a resolution that he introduced earlier this month calling on the United States to withdraw from the World Trade Organization, a spokesman for the congressman said March 24.
