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...antismoking crusaders who want to ban cigarette advertising, the Camel ad was a handy piece of evidence. "The most appalling in decades," declared physician Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen, a Washington consumer group. The four-page Camel ad, which was aimed at vacation-bound youths, offered tips like "how to impress someone at the beach: Run into the water, grab someone and drag her back to the shore, as if you've saved her from drowning. The more she kicks and screams the better...
Besides offending women, the ad alarmed health groups because it seemed to give underage readers tips on how to redeem a coupon for free cigarettes. The ad was lambasted last week before the House subcommittee on transportation and hazardous materials, which is considering a tobacco-ad ban. James Johnston, the new chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, has apologized for the ad. Said he: "It will never run again...
...complete chemical-weapons ban may still be years in the making, but the inspection initiative is a promising sign of new thinking. Until 1987 the Soviet Union not only refused to let U.S. inspectors check compliance on the spot, calling it espionage, but also denied that the U.S.S.R. maintained any stocks of chemical weapons. Under the influence of glasnost, Moscow last week announced agreement in principle to on-site "surprise" inspections of facilities. The arrangement defines what sorts of installations would be involved and under what conditions an inspection could be demanded...
...Bush Administration is ready to test growing Soviet openness further. Last month Washington proposed a START verification package to be negotiated and partly carried out even before a treaty is completed. The initiative suggests measures to count warheads on missiles, tag weapons at manufacturing plants and ban such impediments to verification as encryption of missile test radio signals during launches. "This isn't putting the cart before the horse," says Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, "but putting them next to each other, where they belong...
...Soviets appear willing to accept increasingly intrusive inspections. To win U.S. ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty -- still unapproved because of Senate doubts about verification -- the Soviets permitted American teams to monitor an underground test in Soviet Central Asia. In recent weeks Moscow has allowed Americans to inspect cruise missiles aboard a cruiser in the Black Sea and sanctioned a visit to the Sary Shagan complex, which the Pentagon had claimed, erroneously, housed an antisatellite laser...