WORLD IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Dole Confident on China Trade Vote

Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said he is confident that he would have the votes to sustain a veto by President Bush of legislation imposing conditions on U.S. trade with China. The Kansas Republican was responding to House passage Wednesday of two bills on trade with China. One would end China’s most-favored-nation status and the other would attach human-rights and other conditions to renewal of the trade benefits in 1992. The two bills now go to the Senate. Beijing, meantime, denounced the House vote and said placing any conditions on the trade benefits is unacceptable.