European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 29, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 11 Trade pact support took lot of bartering Washington Long before the Clinton administration Cut a Deal to win Senate Republican Leader Bodole s support for a new world Trade Accord it struck Many others As aimed a satisfying special interests. Critics of the Accord reached under the general agreement on tariffs and Trade denounce the deals As pork barrel politics even though the administration says every one is legitimate. Because the fast track rules of Debat ing Trade agreements preclude Amend ments the administration constructed the Gatt ratifying legislation with an Eye toward pleasing in Advance As Man members of Congress and the varied interests they represent As possible. It s an abuse of executive Power and cynical payoff to those whose support the White House wanted in return said consumer advocate Ralph Nader a Leader of the Accord s Liberal opposition which includes labor unions and Environ mentalists. The lame Duck democratic controlled House is scheduled to vote today after four hours of debate. The Senate is expected to talk for 20 hours and then vote thursday. To win the critical support of Dole r-kan., the administration last week endorsed the creation of a panel of five judges to Monitor the decisions of the world Trade organization a new inter National body that is to police the Accord. Dole the incoming Senate majority Leader had threatened to withhold support unless the administration pledged to Cut the capital gains tax. In some ways other compromises reached during seven months of mostly closed door negotiations with lawmakers ratifying Gatt Are even More comple than deals produced during the seven years of International talks that led to the creation of the 123-nation pact. The Gatt financing package amounts to a grab bag of often obscure and tech Nical provisions put together by the administration and lawmakers on key committees. Thus issues unrelated to Trade such As social Security numbers for infants have become part of the Gatt debate. Janice Shields of Bloomsburg stat University in Pennsylvania calculated in a study for anti Gatt lobbyists that 88percent of the funding package has Noth ing to do with Trade. Fifty five percent fit amounts to accounting gimmicks that raise no real new Money such As Speed ing up the collection of excise taxes. The provision requiring parents to obtain social Security numbers for their children at birth rather than by age 1,the current requirement is designed to discourage taxpayers from claiming exemptions for nonexistent children. The administration estimates that it will save$59 million Over five years. It Hopes to save an additional $122 Mil lion by replacing the minimum 4 percent interest rate for . Sayings Bonds witha floating minimum tied to six month Treasury tills. Perhaps the most widely known provi Sion identified by critics As a special in Terest Deal is a discount on government licenses granted to three companies developing the next generation of Mobile telephones. California taking Stab at immunization plan. .,._ -. " i. By the san Francisco examiner san Francisco in the void left by the collapse of a major part of president Clinton s vaccines for children program California health officials and doctors Are scrambling to create a statewide plan to provide free immunizations to poor and uninsured children. The fledgling California plan which would take effect in mid March Hopes to pick up where the Clinto plan left off. Officials Are drafting a state distribution system run by a yet unnamed wholesale vaccine distributor. Under Clinton a Plani about 3,000 California doctors were counting on the arrival of Federal government sup plied vaccines oct. 1, but at the last minute found themselves empty handed. Most rushed out and bought sup plies on the higher priced commercial Market so that children could still be protected against disease. But the roughly 1 million children of uninsured a working poor families in California could find it too expensive or inconvenient to get vaccinations which Cost $50 to $60 each. Clinton s vaccines for children program signed into Law a year ago was the administration s first attempt to broaden the Federal government s role in health care through a Promise of free shots for every child. Everything about Clinton s program was in place last october except the vaccines themselves. Under heavy pressure by Republican lawmakers and the pharmaceutical Industry the White House Jetti soned an idea at the last minute to store the vaccines in warehouses. Distributed by scr put Howard Newt so to Chase turns fatal Chicago a a Van fleeing police monday morning crossed into the wrong lanes of a downtown expressway and collided with a car killing three people. Occupants of the Van had shot at police officers on Chicago s North Side police said. 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