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University Daily 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 Indian leader.
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.
Pasienian journalists said that about seven bulldozers, backed by 25 army trucks, were still destroying buildings after dark yesterday. The Israeli news agency and Israel TV carried
Buldozers leveled 15 buildings in Bureo) on Monday night before a temporary restraining on the building.
Israeli army destroys homes in Arab-occupied Gaza Strip
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
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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 weapons.
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 PNET places identical limits on nuclear blasts for peaceful purposes, such as seismic or excavation. The United States has designated the Soviets a detonator in 1973, and the Soviets ceased such blasts in 1988.
Consent to ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test
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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.
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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 up by investigations 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.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON The Senate yesterday created drafts during the depths of the Cold War.
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
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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 to the United States under low tariffs
The Associated Press
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