OTHER NEWS - Sept. 10, 1992

Redo Free Trade Pact, Bush Urged: House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt called on President Bush to renegotiate the proposed free trade pact with Mexico and Canada or allow it to be taken up by a new Administration next year. His criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement highlighted growing congressional fears that the pact would cost American jobs and jeopardize environmental standards. Gephardt (D-Mo.) told a meeting of farm, trade union and environmental groups that NAFTA would spur U.S. companies to relocate south to take advantage of low Mexican wages and would do nothing to improve the polluted U.S.-Mexican border.