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Third World Leaders: Ease Poverty

By JAMES ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer HAVANA (AP) - Dozens of Third World leaders were unveiling a strategy to combat poverty enveloping half the global population and help their nations join the industrialized world in its technology revolution.

IMF Official Defends Globalization

Associated Press / Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- International Monetary Fund and Clinton administration officials on Thursday defended their efforts to promote freer trade and greater integration of the global economy, contending they offered the best hope of lifting hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty.

China Trade Opponents Deliver "Propaganda Survival Kit" to U.S. Lawmakers

Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, April 13 (AFP) - Foes of White House plans to grant Beijing permanent trade benefits on Thursday gave US lawmakers set to travel to China a "Propaganda Survival Kit," which included toy handcuffs, union cards, and Bibles.

U.S. Unions Rally Thousands Against China Trade Deal

Agence France Presse / Olivier Knox WASHINGTON, April 12 (AFP) - Major US unions and other foes of granting China permanent trade privileges rallied thousands of protesters at the US Congress Wednesday before deploying them to win over lawmakers.

China Trade Will Be Hot Topic for Congress"" April Recess

By PAUL SINGER WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) -- Members of Congress returning home for the recess that begins this weekend are likely to get an earful on trade with China, as both industry groups and labor/environmental coalitions are planning major grassroots lobbying efforts on the topic.

Clinton China-Trade Address Urged

Associated Press / Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Ways and Means Committee chairman urged President Clinton on Monday to give a televised address to the nation laying out his case for extending permanent trade privileges to China.

China-Trade Backers Are Optimistic

Associated Press / Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite labor's plans to protest one of President Clinton's top economic objectives this week, supporters of permanent trade privileges for China increasingly sense they will prevail.

China Urges Low Tariffs to U.S.

BEIJING (AP) - President Jiang Zemin, meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley, called on Congress on Thursday to give China permanent low-tariff access to U.S. markets.

U.S.: No China Trade Deal Strings

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration, insisting that permanent trade benefits for China must be unconditional, told Congress today that it will oppose any effort to attach strings to the process.

Silicon Valley Calls for U.S. Permanent Trade Status with Beijing

Agence France Presse / Philippe Debeusscher SAN JOSE, California, April 3 (AFP) - Two hundred CEOs from Silicon Valley's leading technology companies support permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China, US President Bill Clinton announced Monday.