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ning to impose trade sanctions
n Japan if agreement is not
eached in one of the areas —
overnment purchases — by
?ept. 30. Two other priority ar-
as under discussion are insur-
nce and autos and auto parts.
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the status of the talks in any of
the areas but he indicated that
the discussions were likely to go
right up to the Sept. 30 deadline.
“1 hope we can make
progress, but I wouldn’t expect
any dramatic announcements or
breakthroughs in the near
term,” Kantor told reporters.
After his meeting with Brown,
Hashimoto joked that “there was
no fatal attack” but he refused to
provide any details of how the
discussions went.
In addition to Hashimoto,
Japanese Foreign Minister
Yohei Kono was scheduled to
meet with Kantor on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Walter Mon
dale, America’s ambassador to
Japan, told a Washington audi
ence that the United States
hopes to resolve the current dis
putes without resorting to trade
sanctions.
Kantor refused to speculate
about what the United States
might do if there is no agreement
in the government purchases area
by a Sept. 30 deadline.
American companies are
pushing for the Japanese gov
ernment to open up its bid pro
cedures specifically in the areas
of medical equipment aAd
telecommunications products.
Government purchases, au
tos and auto parts and insur
ance were the top priority areas
designated more than a year
ago when both countries
launched what was known as
the “framework” talks. While
initial deals were supposed to
have been reached last Febru
ary, the talks instead broke
down over Japan’s refusal to ac
cept numerical benchmarks for
measuring progress.
The fight over this issue re
mains at the center of the nego
tiations with the search contin
uing for ways to measure mar
ket-opening progress that would
be acceptable to both sides.
Kantor was scheduled to con
tinue his talks with the Japanese
on Thursday in Los Angeles in ad
vance of weekend meetings with
the world’s top trading countries.
Those discussions will in
volve the trade ministers from
Japan, Canada and the Euro
pean Union.
Kantor told reporters that
one of the issues on the agenda
will be ways to revive a U.S.
proposal to launch a new round
of talks aimed at lowering glob
al trade barriers.
While Canada and Japan gen
erally support this proposal, it
has met opposition from the EU.
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senate rejects
:ey fact in CIA
»ex lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
ey allegation in a female CIA
officer’s sex discrimination suit
that the spy agency improp-
rly investigated and repri-
anded her for misconduct —
as reviewed and rejected by
wo female Senate Intelligence
Committee auditors last year, a
Congressional official said
IWednesday.
The conclusion reached by the
[committee’s auditors undercuts
one of the central accusations in
the lawsuit, details of which were
declassified Tuesday.
The suit, filed under seal July
14 in federal court in Alexan
dria, Va., claims the CIA inspec
tor general used intimidation
and other improper tactics in in
vestigating the female officer.
The charges against her includ
ed drunken behavior, excessive
overtime claims and misuse of a
government helicopter.
She in turn claims the
barges were made in retalia
tion for her exposing the mis
deeds of a male deputy and oth-
rs on her staff. This happened
while she was the chief of a CIA
tation in Latin America. She
asserts that the reprimand ef-
ectively ended her chances for
advancement in the clandestine
service, which is responsible for
ecruiting and handling agents
abroad.
Tim Carlsgaard, deputy staff
lirector for the Senate Intelli
gence Committee, said the pan-
il’s two female auditors exam-
ned the methods used by the
JIA inspector general and found
hat “fitting” action was taken
against the officer.
Report shows benefits
of family involvement
WASHINGTON (AP) — Armed with a new report on the ben
efits of increased family involvement in children’s learning, Ed
ucation Secretary Richard Riley urged parents Wednesday to do
just that — get more involved.
He also announced that his department will join with the 45-
member National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Educa
tion and other groups to make family participation in education
a top national priority.
“The American family is the rock on which a solid education
can and must be built,” Riley said in a luncheon speech at the
National Press Club.
The partnership will include such organizations as the Na
tional PTA, the National Alliance of Business, the U.S. Catholic
Conference and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
The desire to increase family participation in education is
one of eight national education goals President Clinton ap
proved last March as part of the Goals 2000 initiative. The law
sets benchmarks for what children should be able to do in Eng
lish, math, science and other subjects by 2000.
The Education Department report, “Strong Families, Strong
Schools,” uses three decades of research to show the correlation
between a child’s learning and the increased involvement of his
or her family, calling such interaction the “critical link to
achieving a high-quality education.”
Among the report’s findings:
—Three factors that parents control — pupil absenteeism,
the variety of reading material at home and excessive television
watching
— account for almost 90 percent of the difference in eighth-
grade math test scores across 37 states and Washington, D.C.,
on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
—Reading scores depend on learning activities in the home.
—Studies of individual families show that family involve
ment is more important to pupil success than income or educa
tion.
—The single most important activity for eventual success in
reading is reading aloud to children.
The report also tells parents how they can become more in
volved.
Time constraints, parental uncertainty about how to become
more involved and what they can do, cultural barriers and lack
of a support are obstacles confronting many parents, Riley said.
They can overcome the barriers by reading with their chil
dren, limiting their television viewing, talking with them, estab
lishing a daily family routine, scheduling daily homework times
and keeping an eye on their out-of-school activities, he said.
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