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Wednesdav. November 17. 1993
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The Associated Press
Labor may forgive pact supporters
WASHINGTON — Whoever wins, the battle over NAFTA has bitterly divided the Democratic Party just a year after it united to capture the White House, opening wounds that soothing words alone won't quickly heal.
For there is more at stake in the vote than the North American Free Trade Agreement.
On Monday, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland publicly challenged President Clinton's standing as leader
of the Democratic Party, a remarkal rebuke of the man praised just 10 months ago as labor's savior after 12 years in the cold under Republican presidents.
If there was an doubt about Kirk-
land's motivation, the shifting tide
ANALYSIS
"This fight exposed the fault lines between the old and the new Democratic Party," said Al From, president of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. "This was a big deal for labor and they leveled their best blows. If the president can come back and win this, there is going to be a lot of anger."
Monday erased it; the undecided vote was cutting decidedly in Clinton's favor, and the president appeared poised to deal labor a humiliating defeat on its highest 1993 priority.
Not to mention a tilting of the party's power balance in Clinton's favor.
The Democratic divide runs deeper than the Clinton-labor split. The NAFTA fight also put Clinton at odds with two of the three House Democratic leaders.
the one between Clinton and Majority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Whip David Bonior of Michigan, the two Democrats leading the anti-NAFTA fight.
As for labor, many of the House rank-and-file — on both sides of the NAFTA fight — suddenly find themselves in grudge matches with the party's biggest financial and organizational benefactor.
As they assessed the party turnoil, a handful of senior Clinton advisers said the easiest rift to heal would be
"Unmitigated threats about your tenure in this job, as if you'll do anything as long as they tell you what to do. I thought that was out of line," Democratic Rep. Mel Reynolds of Illinois said.
Democratic National Committee Chairman David Wilhelm predicted labor would forget most of those threats when 1993 turns to 1994, even if it loses the NAFTA vote.
"I think most unions will tally congressional records fairly and not retaliate against some who made a tough choice in favor of NAFTA," Wilhelm said.
Refugees from Cuba, Haiti treated
The Associated Press
g9 MIAMI — Political crisis in Haiti and economic collapse in communist Cuba have added a twist to a longstanding immigration pattern: Cuban refugees talk of fleeing for
pation increasingly evident in the military standoff in that nation.
Meanwhile, the huge influx of refugees from both Caribbean nations this year has sharpened criticism of the different treatment that each group traditionally has received.
The contrast was stark on Monday. A group of 13 Cubans who stole a plane to get here because of what one described as "professional frustration" got a hero's welcome; a group of Haitians dropped from a ship into the seas off Florida were hustled away to a detention camp.
George Waldroup, a representative for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that Cubans are treated differently from every other nationality, not just Haitians.
Subject to the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, Cubans who reach the United States and live here for a year can become
members, rengisely requesting political asylum from their communist homeland receive it nearly automatically.
80 Haitians historically have been classified as economic refugees leaving the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.
But the failure of a U.S.-backed effort to return exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by an Oct. 30 deadline has underlined their claims of political persecution. Aristide was ousted more than two years ago in a military coup.
Most Haitians arriving in Miami in recent months have been paroled quickly to the community, as soon as relatives and sponsors are located.
Although no official change in U.S. policy has been announced, no Haitians have been deported to Haiti in about a month.
But whereas the Coast Guard is under orders to stop Haitian boat people leaving their homeland, in compliance with a longstanding policy, they help Cubans trying to reach the United States.
However, Haitian advocates say that policy isn't consistent — eight Haitians who arrived in 1992 remain in immigration custody in Orleans Parish, La., with bonds up to $5,000.
In the past, Cuban refugees have cited repression in their communist homeland when asking for asylum.
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More than 3,000 Cubans have arrived in South Florida this year, the largest wave since the 1980 Mariel boatlift brought 125,000. More than 2,000 Haitians also have arrived.
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