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Three new names were proposed yesterday for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, including two that do away with the word "Soviet."
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday; September 26, 1990
The Israeli army yesterday tore down more Arab shops and houses in the Gaza Strip's Bureij refuge camp where a soldier was killed last week.
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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 Social States; the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics; and the Union of Euro-Asian Republics.
Rafik Nishanov, chairperson of one of the Susame Soviet's two chambers and an ethnic Ukrainian.
Pelasian news 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.
Israeli army destroys homes in Arab-occupied Gaza Strip
Duozoomers leveled 15 buildings in Burel on Monday night before a temporary restraint on the bridge.
Bush calls for swift action on German unification treaty
President Bush urged the Senate yesterday to swiftly approve a historic treaty to end the division
Senate ratifies 2 treaties that limit nuclear testing
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WASHINGTON The Senate yesterday approved two bills to Soviet-bound testing treaties for the depths of the Arctic.
Consent to ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test
Ban Treaty and the 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosive
Test.
The treaties, which limit underground explosions to 150 kilotons or less, were drafted during the Nixon and Ford administrations but were held up by questions 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.
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 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, intended as a first step toward slowing the race to develop ever-larger nuclear buildup, are likely to have little effect.
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.
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 developing nuclear weapons since 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.
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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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