Lakshmi Narayan went to Delhi and won guarantees for the much-reduced state.

G.E. won guarantees from the state that it would have the same freedom to make management decisions, like layoffs, as it has in the West.

In Brussels, a Belgian foreign ministry spokesman said the Belgian government had won "verbal guarantees" from the Cuban authorities that asylum-seeking Cubans would not be prosecuted.

Earlier it won guarantees for 90 percent of the jobs at Deere & Company and Caterpillar Inc.

"We don't say it's possible to win guarantees that the exact number and nature of jobs existing today will be there tomorrow," Mr. Bieber said.

Some have suggested they could do so if they do not win guarantees that Democrats will allow President Bush's nominations to come to the floor for votes.

In the last two years the company has won guarantees of equal wholesale prices for broadband telecommunications capacity to sell to consumers in Britain, France and Germany.

Relatively small numbers of workers in American industries ranging from telecommunications to farm equipment to steel have begun to demand, and even to win, such guarantees.

McDonald's influence weakened Reuther's attempts to win strong guarantees on civil rights, union corruption and industrial unionism in the unity talks.

The British argued that they had won guarantees from the Vietnamese Government that there would be no reprisals against those returning.