NEWS AND VIEWS
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Military foresees contest in space for the `ultimate high ground'
http://www.flatoday.com:80/space/today/051397a.htm
(Space Today) 13 May 1997
In a formal statement of its vision for the year 2020, Estes'
Space Command advocated planning for the "prospects for
space defense and even space warfare."
NUCLEAR DISARRAY
http://pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/970519/world.nuclear_disar.html
BRUCE W. NELAN Time Magazine - MAY 19, 1997
"Various proposals on how to do that have been put forward,
several by Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution, a leading
expert on nuclear weapons. Missile nose cones, he suggests,
could be replaced by large, blunt tips, or disabling pins could
be inserted into rocket engines. Indeed, warheads could
actually be removed from the missiles, under mutual
inspection procedures. ... These ideas have not caught on.
Defense Secretary Cohen ducks the issue. Others, like former
Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, seem to
think de-alerting would distract people from the campaign
to abolish the weapons altogether."
RUSSIA * ATOM * WEAPONS * ARBATOV * OPINION
RUSSIA'S FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
POSSIBILITY CANNOT TOUCH OFF ANOTHER COLD
WAR -- ALEXEI ARBATOV MOSCOW, MAY 14 /RIA
NOVOSTI'S CORRESPONDENTS ANDREI GALKIN,
SERGEI RYABIKIN/ --
http://www.russia.net/ria/hotline/hu14052.htm
* RUSSIA * LATVIA * RADAR STATION * RUSSIAN
AMBASSADOR IN LATVIA REFUTES ALLEGATIONS
ABOUT RUSSIA'S INTENTIONS TO EXTEND THE WORK
OF THE RADAR STATION AT SKRUNDE RIGA, MAY 14.
http://www.russia.net/ria/hotline/ht140514.htm
Honeymoon's over: Troubles galore since last shuttle-Mir docking
http://www.flatoday.com:80/space/today/051297e.htm
Space Today - May 12, 1997
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Since NASA's last rendezvous
with Russia's orbiting Mir station, the relationship between the
two space partners has turned rocky. Mir is burned and broken,
the future joint space station is grounded another year
because of Russia's lack of cash, and a Russian cosmonaut
assigned to that station says he won't work for an American.
The U.S. And Russia -- Lost In Space
U.S. Money Aids Russia's Crumbling Space Program
ABC Nightline - May 12, 1997
http://www.abcnews.com/onair/nightline/html_files/transcripts/ntl0512.html
For anyone who grew up in the 1950s or 1960s,
one of the defining issues was the space race --
the billions of dollars the US spent to catch up to
the Russians and then to beat them to the moon.
But if the cost of competition was the issue then,
the cost of cooperation is the issue now.
For the past few years, this country has been
working with the Russians putting US astronauts
on the Mir spacecraft, and along with other
nations, building a new space station for the next
century.It sounded like a good way to save money and to
keep Russian scientists from selling their
technology to the highest bidder. But this
cooperation has come at a cost. Those astronauts
on board Mir have had some frightening moments
and the Russian space program is now so
strapped for money that US taxpayers have had
to subsidize it to keep joint projects going.
Russian spy ship reportedly fired laser, injured Canadian, U.S.officers
http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/world/051497/world16_25704.html
WASHINGTON (May 14, 1997 07:07 a.m. EDT) - A
Russian cargo ship spying on a U.S. submarine fired a laser
beam at a Canadian helicopter injuring the pilot and a U.S.
navy officer on board, the Washington Times reported
Wednesday.
U.S. might seek to oust Saddam - Kuwait envoy
http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2895727-598
The United States might try to bring about the removal from power of
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Kuwait's ambassador to Washington said
Monday. The ambassador did not list Washington's steps to end Saddam's
rule but said they included the tightening of the noose around the
Iraqi leader's neck by the Congress, which endorsed a bill urging the
White House to try Saddam as a war criminal. Washington has repeatedly
said that toppling Saddam was not among the objectives of the 1991
Gulf War to free Kuwait of Iraqi occupation.
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