NEWS AND VIEWS
Summaries of and links to online news reports and commentaries.
Reaction to Korean threat confusing
http://times.st-pete.fl.us:80/News2/50197/NATIONAL/Reaction_to_Korean_th.html
JACK R. PAYTON St. Petersburg Times, published May 1, 1997
"WASHINGTON - If you can give a convincing answer to
the following question, please apply immediately for a
cushy job explaining the Clinton administration's foreign
policy: Why is it that Japan, whose major cities are within easy
range of North Korea's latest ballistic missiles, seems
much less intimidated by the Communist nation than the
United States, which isn't within missile range?"
Arms-Control Fetish
http://washingtonpost.com:80/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-05/01/045L-050197-idx.html
George F. Will, May 1 1997; Page A23 The Washington Post
"One price Clinton paid for Lott's collaboration was to agree --
this is no more than constitutional propriety -- to submit for
Senate ratification the "demarcation" provisions negotiated with
the Russians that amend, by extending the scope of, the ABM
treaty. They improvidently limit possible future theater (less than
strategic range) missile defenses and reflect the administration's
apparent desire to inflict on missile defenses a death of a
thousand cuts. This subject, which is more important than the
CWC, will test Lott's seriousness."
Scuds rising again
http://www2.phillynews.com:80/daily_news/97/May/01/national/SCUD01.htm
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Thursday, May 1, 1997
Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- In mock engagements
recalling deadly battles of the Persian Gulf War, the Pentagon
is using a secretly obtained cache of 29 Russian-made Scuds
to give Army Patriot missile crews target practice.... The
command purchased 29 of the missiles and four mobile launchers.
Army uses Russian Scuds to test Patriot missile crews
http://www.boston.com:80/globe/nat/cgi-bin/retrieve.cgi?%2Fglobe%2Fbgc%2F121
%2Fnat%2F022
Boston Globe By Associated Press, 05/01/97
"HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - In mock engagements recalling
deadly battles of the Persian Gulf War, the Pentagon is
using a secretly obtained cache of 29 Russian-made
Scuds to give Army Patriot missile crews target practice."
Germ warfare, we're ready Marines practice for an emergency
http://www2.phillynews.com:80/daily_news/97/May/01/national/MARI01.htm
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS , May 1, 1997 Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Marine turned a green and
blossoming acre near the Capitol into a terrorist hot zone
yesterday, complete with the twitching ``victims'' of a simulated
nerve gas attack. The Marines then rushed in troopers in
spacesuit-style protective gear, hurried the fallen to a pair of
decontamination tents and, in an added touch of realism,
sheared off their street clothes and hosed them down.
Space station's fate in the hands of Gore and Russians
http://www.flatoday.com:80/space/today/042897a.htm
Larry Wheeler FLORIDA TODAY April 28, 1997
"Just back from a trip to Moscow where he met with
government and space industry officials, Sagdeev said he
believes the U.S.-Russian space station partnership was
infected at birth.... Typically, Russian business contracts
include a chapter that specifies fines or penalties for failure
to perform.... The space station partnership documents
signed by Gore and Chernomyrdin contained no such penalty
language, Sagdeev said. "That created the illusion that this
is just optional," said Sagdeev"
Iraqi sanctions retained intact after U.N. review
http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2721058-b36
"The Security Council Thursday retained intact the sanctions imposed on
Iraq after its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The sanctions have
remained unchanged since they were first enacted, except for a special
arrangement last December allowing Baghdad to sell $2 billion of oil
to buy food and medicine for its people. The main condition for easing
of sanctions is a clean bill of health from the U.N. Special
Commission (UNSCOM) in charge of scrapping Iraq's missile capability."
Australian named U.N.'s Iraq disarmament chief
http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2720489-ae7
By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS(Reuter) - Australia's
U.N. ambassador, Richard Butler, was appointed Thursday as
executive chairman of the U.N. commission in charge of Iraqi
disarmament... He will replace Rolf Ekeus of Sweden,
Lawsuit to Block Costly Nuclear Weapons Program
Price tag $40 billion for 10 years
http://www.sfgate.com:80/cgi-bin/chronicle/article.cgi?file=MN36336.DTL&dire
ctory=/chronicle/archive/1997/05/01
David Perlman May 1, 1997 · Page A11 San Francisco Chronicle
"A coalition of anti-nuclear activists announced yesterday
that it will file a federal lawsuit today seeking to halt ...
the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory ... as well as other exotic and costly
devices now planned for the weapons lab at Los Alamos
and the Sandia Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M.... Led
by lawyers for the Natural Resources Defense Council
in Washington and the Western States Legal Foundation in
Oakland, the suit charges that the Department of Energy
has not conducted a proper environmental impact
assessment of its long- planned and controversial
Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Program."
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