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Senate fails to limit China trade
The Senate voted yesterday to impose a long list of strict new conditions on renewal of China's normal trade status in 1992, joining the House in dealing a strong rebuke to President Bush's policy toward Beijing.
But the 55-44 vote, prompted by congressional concern over China's record on human rights, trade and arms sales, fell far short of the two-thirds needed to override a certain presidential veto.
The president contends that Congress' requirements would pose an impossible barrier to renewal of what is called "most-favored nation" trade status, resulting in a cutoff of trade and abandonment of a rare opening to prod growth toward economic and political reform.
The Senate and House now must negotiate the differences between their versions of the bill, and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, has promised to see the veto battle through to a conclusion, even though Bush appeared virtually certain to win it.
"It clear this legislation will not become law. The Leader Bob Dole immediately after the vote.
Washington
Thomas to begin steps to court
The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday scheduled confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas to begin Sept. 10, the day Congress is set to return from its summer recess.
Thomas, a federal appeals court judge, has been nominated by President Bush to succeed
The hearing schedule was announced in a joint statement by the panel's chairperson, Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., D-Del, and its senior Republican, Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Biden previously has said he hoped to complete hearings so that if Thomas were confirmed he could take his seat on the high court in time for the Oct. 7 start of its fall term.
The announcement of the hearings schedule came as People for the American Way, a liberal activist group, charged that Thomas was derelict in his duty to enforce civil-rights laws when he was an assistant education secretary during the Reagan administration.
Manama. Bahrain
3 U.S. soldiers die in explosion
Three U.S. soldiers died in an accidental explosion yesterday near the U.S. military camp at Doha, Kuwait, the U.S. military said.
The soldiers were clearing ammunition remaining from the fire and explosion that occurred at the camp July 11 when some of it detonated, according to a statement from the Joint Information Bureau in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
The statement said the accident occurred at 2 p.m.
The names of the soldiers were being withheld until their relatives could be notified.
"While the cause of the accident has not been determined, we know it was not due to hostile action or sabotage," the statement said.
■ From The Associated Press
Shamir hopes to begin peace negotiations soon
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — In his most optimistic assessment yet of chances for peace, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir yesterday welcomed the release of a statement in ink we are approaching the start of negotiations.
Shamir, who has not yet responded officially to a U.S. plan for peace talks, likened the Syrian change in position to the dramatic change of heart in Septimus Anwar Sadat to come to Israel and make peace.
He said he hoped peace talks could begin within two months.
Shamir's comments came in a closed meeting with a delegation of U.S. prosecutors.
The White House said yesterday that President Bush hoped an agreement could be reached on a Middle East peace conference by next week's superpower summit in Moscow.
Secretary of State James Baker said he expected a reply from Israel shortly, according to diplomats
in Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, where Baker is meeting Asian foreign ministers.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said that it was premature to predict Israel's response to the U.S. designed peace formula but that it was a promising situation.
Until recently, Israeli leaders expressed great skepticism about the motives of Syria, Israel's most implacable foe.
In the comments released by his office, Shamir cautioned that disagreements remained over whether Mr. Guzman (the owner) was to be removed.
The issue of Palestinian representation has long blocked Middle East peace talks. It thwarted Baker's previous initiative and toppled the last Israeli government in March 1990.
On Monday, Shamir suggested that the United States would have to work out the Palestinian delegation problem. That would shift some of the Israeli if Baker's peace mission fails over the issue.
Soviet platform scrutinized
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The Associated Press
The draft platform was published yesterday by the radical newspaper Nezavisima Gazeta. It supports private property, encourages economic freedom and a world market and respects freedom of religion.
MOSCOW — The draft of a sharply reformist Communist Party platform, reportedly backed by President Mikhail Gorbachev, could provoke a debate among reformers at a key policy-making session this week.
Also yesterday, Communist hard-liners accused Russian President Boris Yeltsin of illegally trying to sap the party's power just two days before the plenary meeting of the party's Central Committee.
Yelsin dealt a blow to the hard-line Russian Communist Party on Saturday when he issued a presidential decree ejecting all political parties from government offices and state-run businesses
across the giant republic
Of 16.3 million Communists nationwide, about half are in Russia. The decree would weaken the Soviet Communist Party as well.
Nezavismaya Gazeta said yesterday that the draft party platform could expect support from only about 100 stamina Gorbachev supporters in the 410-member Central Committee.
However, Vladimir Svetozarov, a Central Committee official, told The Associated Press the plenum likely would approve some form of the platform after it had been edited and discussed further.
The draft platform places Gorbachev back in the camp of the radical reformers, after veering last winter toward the party traditionalists. It said the conditionally denounced the brutality of Stalinism.
Ads still depict minorities insensitively, study claims
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — African-Americans are underrepresented in magazine ads and mail-order catalogs. And when they are shown, it is often as unsettling as their workers, according to a study released yesterday.
"This racial neglect is both economically dumb and morally offensive, since minorities control $400 billion in consumer spending and studies show no white backlash if minorities appear in ads." Consumer Affairs Commissioner Mark Green said in a statement.
The Consumer Affairs Department looked at 11,391 ad in 27 national magazines.
It randomly chose nine issues of each magazine, published between July 1988 and July 1991.
It found that 674, or 3.15 percent, of the 21,607 magazine models were African-American, although 11 percent of all magazine readers are African-American. Fewer than 1 percent, or 195, of the models were Asian.
"When Blacks do appear in magazine ads, they are commonly placed as tokens, in groups with whites," Green said.
The department also surveyed 157 catalogs from 56 mail-order companies, finding that 4.6 percent of the 22,683 models were African-Americans. In contrast, fewer than 1 percent of the models, Green said.
Green said that underrepresenting minorities in advertising promoted ignorance.
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