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CHEMICAL WEAPONS. Bush offered to destroy 80% of the 30,000-ton U.S. arsenal in eight years if the Soviets reduce their 50,000-ton stockpile to the same level. Shevardnadze upped the ante by proposing that the superpowers unilaterally wipe out their stocks and cease all chemical-weapons production...
...Congress has already ordered the President to destroy by 1997 even more of the American stockpile than he proposed. Moreover, by making the complete elimination of chemical weapons contingent on the assent of 20 nations deemed capable of producing them, Bush gave veto power to mavericks like Iraq and Libya. Until such an agreement is reached, the U.S. insists on modernizing its supply with new binary nerve-gas weapons -- a position that the Soviets have termed unacceptable...
...analysts believe that the rebels will move fast to demonstrate the military weakness of the Hun Sen government. Only by inflicting a significant military defeat within the next couple of months can they forestall a growing willingness to recognize his rule. Equally important, a major Khmer Rouge victory would destroy any lingering thoughts Sihanouk might entertain about cutting a deal with Hun Sen. Sadly, it seems more bloodletting will be needed to convince the various factions that political compromise is the only answer. Until then, Cambodia's long nightmare will...
...respect for the state they helped destroy, the Soviets should own up to one of their war-time atrocities. Specifically, they should end the half century-long cover-up of a heinous crime in the Katyn forest...
Each day drugs threaten to destroy neighborhoods, corrupt society and take the lives of people in cities across the country. The images of the drug war are powerful: a Natick women reports her son and his friends to police for smoking crack in her basement; an 11-year-old girl breaks into houses in South Boston to support her drug habit...