PLAYING GATT GAMES

President Clinton insists that Congress approve an international trade accord (GATT) -- and he's threatened to keep lawmakers in session until they do just that. One source of Clinton's ire: Senator Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., who's said he'll call for 45 days of hearings in his Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to delay its passage. Hollings' problem? He's afraid that the GATT agreement would ship thousands of textile jobs in his state overseas. Clinton has Constitutional power to call special sessions on extraordinary occasions.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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