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...Nike illustrates, the impact may not be as great as it seems on the surface. But the fears that the devaluation has raised add ammunition to the arsenal of free-trade critics who warned that Americans would be hurt more than helped by NAFTA's close entwining of the U.S. and Mexican economies. In a blistering op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times, Ross Perot, NAFTA's most vocal adversary, declared the devaluation would cost the U.S. thousands more jobs and as much as $20 billion in lost investment capital...
About 2,000 U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War have filed a $1 billion civil suit against 20 prominent German companies, alleging that the firms helped Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein build a poison-gas arsenal. The German magazine Stern reports the action in a story to be published Thursday. The suit, Stern says, seeks $1 billion in damages for exposure to chemical weapons they believe left them with "Gulf War Syndrome," a mysterious collection of symptoms that includes chronic fatigue, headaches, rashes and painful limbs. Some of the German companies today called the suit groundless; no German firm...
Perhaps the most formidable weapon in the arsenal of the Bosnian Serbs is their singleness of purpose compared to the contradictions dividing the Western allies. Those fault lines were evident again last week. Only a few days after France threatened to withdraw its 4,500 peacekeepers from Bosnia, French Defense Minister Francois Leotard argued for a more aggressive stance against the Bosnian Serbs. Military chiefs will gather in the Hague this week to devise ways to strengthen the U.N. presence -- even as their subordinates continue to draft plans for an evacuation...
...nations that can't afford brand-new weaponry, the Pentagon is literally giving away older but still lethal pieces of its cold war arsenal. Pentagon officials say such gifts help nurture closer ties between U.S. and foreign militaries and save millions of dollars that the Defense Department would otherwise have to pay to scrap arms. Among recent donations: Egypt received 700 M-60 tanks and nearly 1,500 machine guns; Israel was handed 15 F-15 fighters and 16 CH-53 helicopters; Mexico took in 48,178 M-1 carbines. Greece and its nemesis Turkey -- both U.S. allies that already...
...announced that it had moved a cache of more than half a ton of uranium -- enough to make three dozen nuclear bombs -- from Kazakhstan to the U.S. in a top-secret operation code-named Sapphire. Kazakhstan had previously agreed to relinquish the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the former Soviet Union, but it had also taken charge of several nuclear stockpiles. U.S. officials were concerned that the cash-starved former Soviet republic would be unable to safeguard the dangerous material. The nuclear stockpile will be stored at the Department of Energy's Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee...