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The first U.S/sub-Saharan Africa trade forum opened on Monday in Washington, D.C. The six-day meeting will provide plenary sessions and roundtables with African trade ministers to promote trade and investment between the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa. The forum was established by President George Bush in May 2001 to support the African Growth and Opportunity Act created in 2000. At the opening of the forum Bush announced the creation of a US $200 million Overseas Private Investment Corporation support facility that will provide U.S. companies access to loans, guarantees, and political risk insurance for investment projects in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The momentum on the issue of the U.N’s Law of the Sea Treaty seems clearly to be with the opponents. All of the Senate’s top Republicans have said they oppose it, with several saying it can’t or won’t pass. GOP presidential candidates are falling in line against it. Even Senator John McCain, previously considered a sure vote in favor of the pact, now says he has his doubts about it. But don’t underestimate the value of biased reporting in favor of the controversial pact. Media bias could turn the tide.
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Among the U.S. citizens interviewed, Hispanics are more likely than non- Hispanics to have indicated that illegal immigration will influence their next Presidential or Congressional vote more than any other issue (21% versus 11%). That's not good news for President Bush, whom 45% of Hispanic U.S. citizens and 51% of non-Hispanic U.S. citizens believe is doing a "poor" job, on a four-point scale, at keeping the level of illegal immigration to the U.S. as it should be.
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According to Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the entire Senate Republican leadership is now opposed to a controversial treaty supported by the president and an implausible alliance of special interests from the U.S. Navy to Greenpeace. At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). Yet, it seems not one of the "establishment" media organs felt moved to report these momentous political developments.
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