UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 18, 1994
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Debate on GATT is possible
Dole trying to get Perot and Kantor to discuss issues
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As the Clinton administration struggled yesterday to find a handful of U.S. Senate votes to pass a world trade pact, the top U.S. negotiator challenged Ross Perot to debate the treaty's impact next week in Kansas.
"I'd be delighted," U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor said. "I'll debate Ross Perot any time on this issue."
President Clinton's chief of staff, Leon Panetta, told reporters the administration was three to five votes short of the 60 needed to pass the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the Senate.
"We've got some work to do," Panetta said vetteday.
Panetta said he expected the treaty to overwhelmingly pass the House after Thanksgiving.
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole, who holds the key to GATT passage, has been trying to lure Kantor to a forum suggested by Perot in the senator's home state. The Texas billionaire and 1992 independent presidential candidate opposes GATT.
Perot initially brought up the idea on his national radio show and contacted Dole this week about setting up a debate between Kantor and Pat Chato, an economist, author and Perot adviser.
Kantor said he hadn't yet decided to attend the forum, which would be Tuesday at the Century II Concert Hall in Wichita. Perot has offered to spend whatever it takes to get a Kantor-Choate debate on national television. A Perot representative said.
But Kantor indicated he wasn't much interested in debating Chote.
"You can't fight somebody who doesn't have any ammunition," he said.
Chate responded, "We would find that out at the podium."
Russell Verney, national policy coordinator for Perot's United We Stand organization, said Perot would prefer Choate debate Kantor because the debate should be nonpolitical.
Last year, Vice President Al Gore was credited with helping seal passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement following a nationally televised debate with Perot. Gore, however, has rebuffed consumer advocate and GATT critic Ralph Nader's requests for a debate between them.
Dole and Kantor have been negotiating a separate bill that would make it easier for the United States to withdraw from GATT if the country's interests were jeopardized.
Dole also has raised objections about a deal that gives discounts to three communications companies on valuable licenses needed to develop wireless telephone systems and about a provision changing the minimum 4 percent yield guaranteed on U.S. savings bonds.
Kantor said he was optimistic those concerns could be addressed next year, clearing the path for GATT ratification this year.
"I think he has raised some legitimate questions," Kantor said. "I think they can be addressed. We'll continue to work over the next few days, and I am hopeful we can reach a productive resolution that will gain his support for this trade bill this year."
Dole previously has said he generally supported free trade and preferred to pass GATT this year, if his concerns are dealt with.
"Td rather fix it and do it this year," Dole said Wednesday.
How Dole handles GATT will be an early signal of whether or not the GOP and President Clinton keep their pledges to work together when possible after Republicans take control of Congress next year, Panetta said.
"We really do consider this the first test of whether we can work with the Republican leadership in the Congress," he said.
Olathe woman reports she had been raped
BRIEF
A 23-year-old Olathe woman who was in Lawrence early yesterday morning reported to police that she was raped.
Kansan staff report
The woman, who is not a KU student, told police that she had been at Louise's West, 1307 W. 7th St., when she met a man who had been playing pool at the bar. The two started talking, then, about 1:30 a.m., went to the man's apartment in the 2500 block of West 6th Street. Lawrence police reported.
his first name and that she said she had not wanted to have sex with him, but he had forced her to. The woman said she had tried to resist but had remained quiet because the man had told her not to make too much noise because it might wake his roommate, so she obliged, police said.
Police said that the woman only knew the man by
After the attack, the woman left the apartment and drove herself to the Shawnee Mission Medical Center, where she was administered a rape kit. The hospital called the Merriam Police Department, who then called the Lawrence Police Department.
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Friday, November 18, 1994
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