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To: long-gone who wrote (59218)	10/1/2000 11:09:46 PM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 116958

U.S. and EU postpone trade showdown Saturday, September 30, 2000 11:58 PM EDT WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- With the deadline for the start of a multi billion dollar trade war only hours away, the United States and the European Union Saturday agreed to postpone the showdown. The two sides gave themselves until Nov. 1 to resolve a disagreement over a U.S. trade subsidy delivered through Foreign Sales Corporations ruled illegal by the WTO. Had the agreement, negotiated by the U.S. Trade Representative office and the European Union, not been forthcoming by the midnight deadline, the EU could have published a list of U.S. products worth $4 billion a year subject to penalty tariffs without returning the case to the World Trade Organization. Without addressing the merits of either side's arguments, the United States and the EU agreed to postpone the showdown for a month, to allow the U.S. Congress to alter the disputed subsidy program and for the EU to ask for a WTO review. In a statement distributed by the U.S. Trade Representative's office Saturday, the U.S. said that both sides "demonstrated a commitment to avoid escalating trans-Atlantic trade tensions." The dispute may not fade for long, however, since the EU has already objected to the changes made in the trade program in legislation moving through the U.S. Congress, the second U.S. attempt this year to meet WTO criteria. The fact that the U.S. is already imposing nearly $200 million worth of sanctions against the EU in a separate dispute involving banana trade also is indirectly raising the intensity of the dispute over Foreign Sales Corporations. The United States has administered about $4 billion in subsidies over the past decade and a half through the program, and some EU based companies have objected strenuously. The United States lost its bid to keep the program without change when a WTO panel called the FSC practices impermissible. The U.S. House has passed its version of FSC changes, but it does not agree with the version about to be voted on by the U.S. Senate. The legislation would actually increase the amount spent on the subsidy, but allow EU based companies to participate. (c) 2000 UPI All rights reserved. -0- Copyright 2000 by United Press International. News provided by COMTEX comtexnews.com

To: long-gone who wrote (59218)	10/1/2000 11:12:30 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116958

OT Here's some good old-fashioned Religion for you: CATHOLIC PRIEST ATTACKS ABORTION CLINIC IN ILLINOIS Sunday, October 01, 2000 11:35 AM EDT Washington, Sep 30, 2000 (EFE via COMTEX) -- A Catholic priest crashed his car into an Illinois abortion clinic Saturday before entering the clinic wielding an ax, according to police. The incident occurred Saturday morning at a clinic in Rockford, Illinois, when John Earl, a 32-year-old Catholic priest, crashed his car into the building and went on a rampage, destroying everything in his path with an ax. Earl only stopped when the clinic owner fired several shots into the air from a revolver, according to police. The priest has been arrested and charged with theft and property damage. A 10,000-dollar bail has been set. The attack at the Rockford clinic occurred two days after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved use of the "morning after" abortion pill, RU-486. EFE EMM/eaf/vc efe.es Copyright (c) 2000. Agencia EFE S.A. News provided by COMTEX comtexnews.com