As the envoys gathered in Washington, the Administration renewed its denunciation of the Nicaraguan Government for breaking up protests over the weekend in Managua.

An unimpressive result might also give new impetus to efforts to strip China of "most-favored-nation" trading benefits, which the Administration renewed in June.

If it does, he argues, the Administration and Congress should permanently renew most-favored-nation status for China and then seek a long-term alternative to the annual threat of sanctions, which no one really wants to carry out.

In May, despite what United States intelligence agencies described as compelling evidence that China had shipped parts for M-11 missiles to Pakistan, the Administration renewed China's favored trade status, making it conditional on improvements in China's human rights record.

He also said the Administration would renew efforts to streamline Federal habeas corpus proceedings that officials say are used to unduly delay executions.

They contend that the highest priority now should be stopping the war between Iran and Iraq and that the Administration should renew its efforts to secure Soviet and Chinese support for a United Nations arms embargo against Iran.

The move underlines that now that the Administration has renewed China's trade benefits and put human rights issues on the back burner, one of the main sources of friction between Washington and Beijing will be over trade issues and particularly copyright violations.

In response to the World Trade Center bombing and evidence of schemes to blow up other New York targets and murder officials, the Administration has renewed its vigilance.

In particular, the Administration renewed its insistence on what kinds of business reasons could be used in court to justify employment practices that discriminated against women and minority members.

The Administration recently renewed the certification, but the Russian secrecy surrounding the project worries American advocates of the aid.