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Clinton also declared a peace dividend following a pact by the world's seven wealthiest industrial nations plus Russia to seek a ban on nuclear testing by September. The same Moscow summit produced agreement on joint efforts to contain trafficking in nuclear materials. "Today we took yet another step back from the nuclear precipice," said the President. But environmental groups sharply criticized the summit for its failure to deal with a score of issues, including the shutdown of aging, Soviet-designed nuclear reactors. Meanwhile Russia reaffirmed its decision to sell nuclear-energy technology to Iran despite the Administration's protests...
...that America's young people are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life. By pitching the attack closer to home, where parental fears are more easily aroused, conservatives are extending their influence while escaping the tough scrutiny that has greeted their more visible campaign in statehouses to ban same-sex marriages. At the local level, the accent is on keeping homosexuality out of the curriculum and the classroom and on blocking ordinances that protect gays and lesbians from discrimination. Such campaigns trickle up: grass-roots fears of "homosexual recruitment" led the Utah legislature last week to ban...
...substance into the relationship," FlorCruz says. "This summit will put the relationship on a more solid basis in terms of trade, economic cooperation, border agreements, and provide more political exchange." Along with bolstering relations, Yeltsin has indicated he will try to pressure Beijing to sign the nuclear test ban treaty agreed to by Russia and the G-7 leaders last weekend. "Don't expect Yeltsin to push hard in public for China to sign the treaty," FlorCruz says. "Yeltsin knows China doesn't like to be pushed into a corner in public. But it will be on his agenda...
Lewis has rejected all three of the council's bills submitted to him thus far, including his recent decision to veto a proposal to ban the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony in Harvard Yard...
Under a trial agreement with Cambridge fire officials, the combination microwave, refrigerator and freezer will be allowed in dorm rooms, under the condition that the ban on cooking in rooms not be lifted...