Winners & Losers

WINNERS

THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY

Mideast pact alters its global image: whale killer to peacemaker

WEI JINGSHENG

Hoping to be host of the 2000 Olympics, China frees top dissident

EMMITT SMITH

Hard-fought $13.6 mil Dallas deal makes him top-paid running back

LOSERS

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU

Israel's urbane rightist left griping on the sidelines by P.L.O. deal

BRUCE BABBITT

Western Senators delay his grazing-land fee increase

KEVIN COSTNER

His Deadwood casino scheme looks dead after South Dakota vote