41.   Los Angeles-area business leaders hailed the congressional vote Wednesday approving permanent normal trade relations with China.

42.   Meeks was uncertain what advantage labor unions could expect if Congress does not grant China permanent trade status when it votes on the measure later this month.

43.   No sooner did Congress grant permanent normal trade status to China in September than the WTO talks broke down in angry exchanges and accusations.

44.   Now President Clinton has asked Congress to give China the same permanent trade benefits granted most other nations.

45.   Organized labor suffered a stinging defeat last month when the House voted for permanent trade relations with China.

46.   Opponents of permanent normal trade relations are ceding nothing.

47.   Proponents of the permanent trade measure argue that the deficits will decrease as barriers to imports into China are dropped.

48.   Pelosi helped lead the unsuccessful effort in the House to block permanent normal trade relations with China.

49.   Permanent normal trade relations, or PNTR, which passed last year after an especially contentious debate in Congress, is probably not in danger.

50.   Permanent trade status would be implicit in any deal that got China into the World Trade Organization.