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Israeli charged over Iran chemical arms links http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2780897-58e An Israeli businessman was accused in a Tel Aviv court Monday of selling Iran equipment for making poison gas, the Justice Ministry said. Nahum Manbar, who has lived in France since 1985, was arrested in March when he came to Israel for a visit. Portions of the released indictment said that from 1990 to 1995 Manbar, 51, supplied Iran with material for the production of mustard and nerve gas. Charges said the businessman met several times with Magid Abasfur, identified as head of "the Iranian chemical warfare project." Red Cross talks fail to agree on food aid for North Korea http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2782144-df5 Negotiators from the Red Cross organizations of rival North and South Korea failed to reach agreement Monday on shipments of grain aid to the hungry and isolated North, officials said. However, Lee Byung-woong, secretary general of the South Korean Red Cross, said the talks would resume in the near future through a direct telephone line between the two Koreas. The talks had stalled over the exact amount and method of delivery for South Korea grain to the North, Lee said. North Korea says ball in South Korea's court on food aid talks http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/world/050697/world6_952.html SEOUL (May 6, 1997 06:25 a.m. EDT) - North Korea on Tuesday blamed the South for failure to reach a final agreement on food aid at an inter-Korean Red Cross meeting in Beijing, but said it was ready for another meeting "anytime." U.N. chief opens conference on chemical weapons ban http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/world/050697/world10_1186.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (May 6, 1997 06:43 a.m. EDT) -- Countries who signed the new chemical arms treaty now in effect began the painstaking task Tuesday of hammering out ways to enforce the ban on killer poisons. Missile Defense: The Sequel http://not.on.line/too.bad!!! By Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright Technology Review - May 1997 After abandoning much of the Reagan-era effort to shield the country from long-range nuclear attack, the U.S. is again pursuing a high-tech system of national defense as well as plans for protecting troops abroad. But no hostile countries actually have the missiles most such efforts are designed to stop. What's more, many of these costly efforts would violate a treaty that has worked for 25 years and would, paradoxically, prevent further cuts in nuclear weapons.
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