21.   Lehane said Gore supports trade agreements that include labor and environmental protections as part of main trade provisions, not as side agreements.

22.   Major League Baseball prohibits side agreements that do not accompany the contract when it is filed with the American League or National League.

23.   Negotiators ended up relegating labor and environmental standards to side agreements that have generally been viewed as inadequate.

24.   Otherwise they must be relegated to side agreements that will require a separate congressional vote.

25.   Otherwise, they must be negotiated in side agreements not eligible for fast track approval.

26.   Senate Democratic Leader Daschle, who has yet to endorse the legislation, says he wants side agreements that must be recognized and honored.

27.   Side agreements have essentially stipulated this in previous trade pacts, yet have repeatedly been ignored.

28.   Similar side agreements in past have been ignored.

29.   State Department officials said they were alarmed to learn that under the January side agreement, several dozen Iranian physicists would study advanced nuclear technology in Russia.

30.   The Environmental Defense Fund favored the treaty and the side agreement and still contends that both will bring American pressure and expertise to bear on Mexican polluters.