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Some 600 members of the National Association of Manufacturers descended on Washington last week to lobby for the Danforth bill, which besides setting national standards for product-liability suits would establish a new procedure for speedy out-of-court settlement of claims for economic damages. They first gathered at the Marriott Hotel to swap horror stories and pep talks. Under present legal rules, "you're afraid to try anything, put any new product on the market," cried Gust Headbloom, president of Michigan's Apex Broach & Machinery Co. Peter J. Nord, president of Schauer Manufacturing Corp. in Cincinnati, which makes battery...
...states. So many Michiganders packed into the office of Democratic Senator Carl Levin that several of the businessmen had to perch on upended attaché cases. Levin warned them that "the whole spirit of Congress is to get away from regulation," but promised to take a careful look at the Danforth bill. Plaintiffs' attorneys, needless to say, oppose all tort-reform plans. They commonly accuse insurers of creating a sense of crisis to enact laws that would deny just compensation to victims of malpractice or injury. More troubling, they insist that all the tort-reform ideas would undermine a fundamental principle...
Even if it wanted to, the Bush Administration has little power to push Annan out before his second term ends in 2006. (The only startling resignation at the U.N. last week was that of U.S. Ambassador John Danforth,who said he was quitting primarily to spend more time with his ailing wife.) So far, there is no evidence that Annan's son did anything improper or illegal, much less the Secretary-General himself. Annan's supporters point to his record of integrity and honesty, which few have ever questioned. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, former British Ambassador to the U.N., spoke...
Preoccupied by the war in Iraq, Washington has assumed a wait-and-see attitude. Its outgoing ambassador to the U.N., John Danforth, says Washington wants to ensure that any reform would make the Council more, not less, efficient. An expanded Security Council wouldn't necessarily satisfy that requirement, since the addition of new members would mean that Council debates might drag on even longer. But right now the U.S. knows it has to keep its allies happy. "This is a huge party for many of the countries we deal with," notes a senior State Department official. "Even though...
...JOHN DANFORTH, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., in the Bush Administration's first show of support for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan since calls for his resignation last week...