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New names for Soviet Union proposed in Kremlin debate
Three new names were proposed yesterday for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, including two that do away with the word "Soviet."
In a parliamentary debate on the union treaty that is being drawn up between the Kremlin and the 15 Soviet republics, these names were proposed: the Union of Sovereign Socialist States; the Union of Sovereign Republics; and the Union of Euro-Asian Republics.
Rafik Nishanov, chairperson of one of the Supreme Soviet's two chambers and an ethnic Tatar.
The Israeli army yesterday tore down more Arab shops and houses in the Gaza Strip's Burei] refuge camp where a soldier was killed last week.
Israeli army destroys homes in Arab-occupied Gaza Strip
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Pestellian journalists said that about seven builders, backed by 25 army trucks, were still destroying buildings after dark yesterday. The agency and Israel TV carried similar reports.
Bulldozers ledged 15 buildings in Burei on Monday night before a temporary restraining barricade.
Bush calls for swift action
on German unification treaty
President Bush urged the Senate yesterday to swiftly amprove a historic treaty to end the division the No.
Senate ratifies 2 treaties that limit nuclear testing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday approved two U.S.-Soviet nuclear testing treaties drafted during the depths of the Cold War.
Consent to ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test
Ban Treaty and the 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions
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The treaties, which limit underground explosions to 150 kilotons or less, were drafted during the Nixon and Ford administrations but were held under the Obama administration about whether they could adequately be verified.
Those doubts were largely erased by a new set of verification rules agreed to by Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on June 1 during their Washington summit meeting. The verification rules, in many ways, are more important than the testing limits imposed by the treaty.
The treaties lag far behind current arms control reality, which contemplates massive reductions in the U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals and sharp cuts in conventional forces.
But the verification procedures, which provide for on-site inspection teams fielded by both sides, may become important precedents for more ambitious treaties to come, supporters said.
The treaties, intended as a first step toward slowing the race to develop ever-larger nuclear capacities, are one of the most important
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The Carter administration wanted a comprehensive test ban rather than a limitation. The Reagan administration held them up because it believed the United States would be unable to verify Soviet compliance, and charged that Moscow had violated the ceiling on at least two dozen occasions.
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The TTBt puts a ceiling of 150 kilotons on the size of weapons tests and provides detailed procedures to ensure that the other side can accurately measure yields.
The PNET places identical limits on nuclear blasts for peaceful purposes, such as seismic exploration or excavation. The United States has detonated two nuclear weapons in 1973, and the Soviets ceased such blasts in 1988.
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The Bush administration vigorously opposes suspending China's 10-year-old status as a most-favored nation trading partner, which effectively reduces the tariffs on Chinese imports, by 90
human rights and diplomatic issues.
House expects showdown on trade status of China
WASHINGTON — Plans were laid yesterday for a showdown in the House on whether to allow China to export billions of dollars in toys and clothing to the United States under low tariffs
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