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University Daliv Kansan / Wednesday, September 26, 1990
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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 Soviet Sovereign Republics, and the Union of Euro-Asian Republics.
Rafik Nishanov, chairperson' of one of the Supreme Soviet's two chambers and an ethnic Jewish activist.
Israeli army destroys homes in Arab-occupied Gaza Strip
The Israeli army yesterday tore down more Arab shops and houses in the Gaza Strip's Bureij refugee camp where a soldier was killed last week.
Pascalien journalists said that about seven bulldozers, backed by 25 army trucks, were still destroying buildings after dark yesterday. The bulldozers' agency and Israel TV carried similar reports.
Builders leveled 15 buildings in Burei) on Monday night before a temporary restraining on the building.
Bush calls for swift action on German unification treaty
President Bush urged the Senate yesterday to swiftly convene a historic treaty to end the divisive
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Senate ratifies 2 treaties that limit nuclear testing
The Associated Press
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 rate to develop ever-larger nuclear capacity.
WASHINGTON The Senate yesterday treated drafts during the deaths of the Cold War.
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.
Consent to ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosive Test Ban Treaty.
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 been unable to deal with the bombings of 1973, and the Soviets ceased such blasts in 1988.
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.
The treaties, which limit underground explosions to 150 kilotons or less, were drafted during the Nixon and Ford administrations but were held until the 1970s about whether they could adequately be verified.
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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. The United States
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