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Got an Earthly Cause? New Satellites to Help
http://www.csmonitor.com/todays_paper/graphical/today/intl/intl.3.html
Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor Wednesday May 7, 1997
New commercial imaging satellites able to zoom in on
anything from a logging truck in a forest to a possible
building site will offer detailed pictures to anyone with
a credit card and access to the Internet.... Access to
this advanced technology will enable citizen watchdogs
to monitor governments and corporations in unprecedented
ways. ... "This [technology] is utterly radical," says John Pike,
space policy director of the Federation of American
Scientists (FAS), a Washington think tank. "We're
going from pictures that cost thousands [of dollars]
where we can barely see buildings to pictures that
cost hundreds and we can identify cars."
Syria's deadly secret
http://www.jpost.com:80/com/Archive/06.May.1997/Opinion/Article-1.html
by DANIEL LESHEM Jerusalem Post May 6, 1997 29 Nisan 5757
(May 6) - Israeli intelligence analysts have expressed concern and
amazement at the rapidity and ease with which the Syrians have been able
to obtain the know-how to produce VX nerve gas. Secretly assisted as it
has been by Russian chemical experts, the Syrian military R&D and
industrial complex known as the Scientific Studies and Research Center...
obviously had no trouble getting the required expertise, technology and
materials from Russian sources. That ought to be a cause for grave concern
to the US as well as Israel, especially in light of the recent ratification
of the
Chemical Weapons Convention by the US ..."
The deterrence triad
http://www.jpost.com:80/com/Archive/07.May.1997/Opinion/Article-0.html
Editorial Jerusalem Post May 7, 1997 30 Nisan 5757
(May 7) - The indictment of Nahum Manbar, a businessman and former
paratroop officer, for knowingly assisting Iran's chemical weapons
program, is so shocking as to be almost unbelievable. It is hard to imagine
a greater betrayal of one's country. If the allegations are true, then the
Vanunu affair and other security breaches in Israel's history pale in
comparison.
Mixed signals to Iran
http://www.boston.com:80/globe/ope/ed/cgi-bin/retrieve.cgi?%2Fglobe%2Fbgc%2F
126%2Fepg%2F002
Editorial By Globe Staff, 05/06/97
The hard truth is that neither Washington's unilateral
efforts at isolating Iran's despots nor Europe's courting of
them has been effective. Ayatollah Khomeini's heirs are
still sponsoring terrorism wherever they please. They are
still trying to subvert governments across the Persian Gulf
and in Egypt and North Africa. They are still doing their
utmost to thwart Arab-Israeli peacemaking. They are still
pursuing the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction
and the means to deliver them as far away as Paris and
Berlin.
INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR NOMINEE GEORGE TENET
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1997_hr/s970506t.htm
Washington -- The U.S. intelligence community must keep a "relentless
watch on all aspects of nuclear weaponry "including not just those
countries that have such weapons, but also those that seek them," says
George Tenet, President Clinton's nominee to be the next Director of
Central Intelligence (DCI).
CIA nominee warns of unprecedented terror threat
http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2804168-730
President Clinton's choice to lead the CIA into the 21st century,
George Tenet, warned Tuesday that unspecified "terrorists" were
stepping up their capabilities worldwide, posing an "enormously high"
threat to U.S. interests. Tenet made the comments during the first day
of his Senate confirmation hearings. But Tenet, 44, did not spell out
which groups he thought posed this threat to the United States.
* CHEMICAL WEAPONS * SESSION * RUSSIA *
PARLIAMENT * MESSAGE STATE DUMA
MESSAGE CIRCULATED AT CONFERENCE OF
MEMBER STATES OF ORGANISATION FOR
PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS THE
HAGUE, MAY 7. /RIA
http://www.russia.net/ria/hotline/hv07055.htm
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