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...experts at the CIA and Pentagon have lately been worrying about the much more plausible danger that Soviet tactical nukes, as well as chemical and biological weapons, might end up in the hands of secessionist rebels in the U.S.S.R. or shady merchants in the international arms bazaar. Still, American defense planners cannot entirely rule out the possibility that the Strategic Rocket Forces might pose a threat to the U.S. in the future, which is particularly uncertain in the case of the U.S.S.R...
...Jack Kemp praised Clean Sweep as a "model for the rest of the country." The operation has posted impressive results so far: the police confiscated 817 weapons last year and 214 in the first three months of 1991. But faced with a flourishing drug trade and an illegal-arms bazaar, the C.H.A. is fighting an uphill battle...
...start with the descent of American politics into a corrupt bazaar of special interest groups vying for power. The first and most important obstacle to Congressional approval of gun control legislation is the three million-member National Rifle Association, which, in the case of the Brady Bill, was able to kill a bill that enjoyed 95 percent approval in public opinion polls...
...Secretary of State Richard Solomon flew to Beijing to protest the sales. China's missile mongering means Beijing has turned its back on a commitment to Washington that it would no longer sell such weapons in the region. Despite the U.S. pressure, China seems determined to continue the arms bazaar. Beijing officials are well aware that the U.S. is reluctant to stop Syrian President Hafez Assad -- an allied coalition partner in the gulf war -- from making a major weapons purchase...
Mitterrand was the deciding influence in France's fortitude. There were understandable reasons for his initial go-it-alone diplomacy. Iraq had long been France's best customer in the Middle East arms bazaar: Paris was owed about $3 billion for past weapons deliveries when Iraq invaded Kuwait. But more than markets and money was at stake. Mitterrand had to consider the legacy of General Charles de Gaulle, who believed it was part of France's destiny to develop a special relationship with the Arab world. The President also had to weigh the probable impact of his actions on neighboring...