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Vice President Al Gore, at the United Nations to lobby dozens of non-nuclear nations to approve permanent curbs on nuclear weapons technology, told them the U.S. ultimately wants to eliminate its arsenal, too. Although the U.S. has a 90-vote majority in hand to extend the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proloferation Treaty, TIME United Nations correspondent Bonnie Angelo reports, Gore is trying to persuade the largest possible margin to side with him for credibility's sake. Otherwise, as Gore said in his U.N. speech, "it will encourage would-be proliferators to lie low and to clandestinely pursue their objectives...
...White House is considering a ban on all U.S. trade with Iran to punish efforts to build a nuclear arsenal there. ButTIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the Clinton Administration previously has been opposed to an all-out embargo because the business likely would be diverted to firms in other countries that compete with American companies. McAllister expects President Clinton to opt for narrower restrictions. Clinton is expected to move swiftly on various options, including proposals to ban sales of computers and equipment with military applications to Iran, or toban importing oilfrom Iran for sales abroad -- a $4 billion market. Purchasing...
Russia refused to cancel itssale of nuclear reactorsto Iran, despite Defense Secretary William Perry's warning during talks in Moscow today thatthe dealcould enable Iran to build a nuclear weapons arsenal. Perry said that while Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin assured him that Russia will make sure Iran does not use plutonium from the reactors to manufacture weapons, the U.S. is not confident that Russia can do so. TIME senior editor George Russell says Russia sees Iran as a "major ideological threat," a key Muslim power with links to Muslims in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union...
...York City. Adams was also invited to the White House by President Clinton for a St. Patrick's Day reception honoring Irish Prime Minister John Bruton. British Prime Minister John Major sent Clinton a letter of protest and asked him to pressure Adams to dismantle the I.R.A. arsenal...
Firecrackers, hand grenades, bombshells: the defense team is ready to toss an arsenal of hints, suggestions and arguments into this already explosive case. While Clark was cooling off and plotting her comeback, halfway across Los Angeles County, defense lawyer Robert Shapiro was watching his 14-year- old son Brent play a hard-fought, body-checking ice hockey game--and chatting strategy. Consider the bloody socks, he says, talking fast while cheering on Brent. Investigators ``find a pair of socks'' at O.J.'s house the day after Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found murdered, Shapiro explains. ``Nobody notices...