US President Bill Clinton must decide on MFN renewal, which he has linked to human rights improvements, by June 3.

Careful scrutiny for human rights improvements will be required when the Administration prepares to disburse the fiscal year 1991 military aid to Kenya.

Some American Congressmen - not Representative Leland - argue that Washington should adopt trade sanctions against Ethiopia to push for human rights improvements.

Mr. Uribe, who apparently felt some real human rights improvements had been slighted, responded by calling the groups a front for terrorists.

Ms. Pelosi is sponsoring a bill that would extend China's trading status for this year but make the 1992 extension contingent on human rights improvements and other conditions.

At the same time, about 10 members of the Civil Human Rights Front had orange banners calling for human rights improvements and universal suffrage.

In a statement issued after the meeting, the clergymen said they "warned Baker that U.S. aid to El Salvador must be connected to human rights improvements."

Like its Republican predecessors, the administration now contends that pushing for human rights improvements quietly and behind the scenes is more effective.

Washington should continue to press for human rights improvement in the Soviet Union, the report says.

A two-year trend of human rights improvements in South Korea has been reversed, Amnesty International, the international human rights group, said today.