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This bill, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, would give sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the U.S. textile market, a self-help strategy that should prove much more successful than the current foreign aid policy of loaning money or forgiving debts. Although the bill should be welcomed with some reservations, the Clinton administration was still correct in its decision to sacrifice the World Bank proposal in order to ensure the bill's passage. While the more modest African Growth and Opportunity Act actually has a good chance of being enacted, the World Bank proposal is not only...
...Although the bill would only apply to companies that comply with international labor laws, this scenario raises questions about exploitation and whether increasing business for large companies is the best way in which to develop poorer countries. For example, factories often lift the economy by providing new jobs, only to devastate it when they leave a few years later, having found cheaper labor elsewhere. However, although African textile unions object to the mandate to buy American fabrics, they overwhelmingly support the bill, which they hope will lead to increasingly more open markets. Indeed, the bill has the cross-cultural appeal...
Before I begin, though, I should address possible detractors. Purists may take offense at this column because the changes I advocate may alter the very nature of the game. To those people, I would say that I love the sanctity of the game as much as the next golfer. Although my handicap hovers around the age the Grille bouncer believes me to be, I am still enamoured with the magical spirit of golf and only seek to bring the sport to a wider audience...
...remove the flag from its perch atop the statehouse. A much-maligned compromise bill will replace the traditional Southern Cross with a smaller flag to be flown on the grounds of the Capitol - still highly visible, but, proponents of the bill hope, less likely to offend. Although the state House must pass the bill before Gov. Jim Hodges can sign it into law, many feel Wednesday's vote was the beginning of the end in the state's protracted battle over the placement and appropriateness of the Confederate flag...
...pending the outcome of an appeal by his relatives for custody, and the Justice Department indicated it would hold off on efforts to reunite the boy with his father pending the outcome of the latest court battle, which the government expects will take at least three or four days. Although the Miami relatives lost a battle to bring the matter to a state court Thursday, the setback was overshadowed by their victory in the Atlanta appeals court, which once again moves the struggle over Elian's fate off the streets of Miami and into a courtroom...