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...stumbling block is U.S. insistence that the Russians scrap their entire post-START arsenal of 154 land-based SS-18 missiles, each of which carries 10 warheads. Yeltsin demands as a quid pro quo that the U.S. dismantle its fleet of multiple-warhead Trident submarine-based missiles. After a final meeting with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev reported "good progress" but added that "the rest will depend on our Presidents...
...designed to help foreign nations purchase American farm goods, approved most of the loan guarantees. "These loans not only permitted Iraq to feed its people," complains another House Democrat, Henry Gonzalez of Texas, "they freed up scarce foreign exchange that was used by Iraq to build up its military arsenal...
...EVEN THE WORST OF DISASTERS THERE ARE bound to be some opportunities. One group that sees itself as a potential benefactor from the Los Angeles riots is the National Rifle Association. Already, articles pointing out the benefits of keeping a home arsenal as a defense against armed looters are slated for the June issues of the N.R.A.'S American Rifleman and American Hunter magazines as well as for the upcoming edition of its political action newsletter, NRAction. Although there are no television ads in the works yet, the progun organization is reviewing videotapes of the riots with...
...Special Forces qualification course, and served with the Green Berets. In Beirut he was identified merely as a military attache assigned to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). But his hulking physique didn't fit such a low- profile diplomatic post. Friends there remember him as a "walking arsenal" of guns and knives. His real assignment reportedly was to work with the CIA in reconnoitering the American hostages in Lebanon and then, if feasible, to lead a daring raid that would rescue them...
...President Hafez Assad to lash out at U.S. Middle East policies. Damascus already has Scud missiles capable of striking Israel. The Scud-Cs believed to be part of the Ho's cargo have a greater range, at more than 300 miles, than the Scud-Bs already in Syria's arsenal, but they would not significantly alter the balance of power in the Middle East. While denying that the Ho was delivering new missiles -- a denial echoed by North Korea -- Assad attacked Washington's efforts to "strip the Arabs of their weapons" while "allowing Israel to manufacture arms...