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This week, the Senate will begin full-session deliberations on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty which will go into effect on April 29. The CWC, which would ban the development, possession and transfer of chemical weapons and would call for their destruction--given the wide-spread support it has already garnered--will enter into force with or without American ratification. Yet, the United States has so far balked at ratifying the CWC, a treaty that President Bush helped construct in 1991 and that all living presidents and secretaries of state stand behind...
...tank material," a next step that Do did not plan to impose on all male members. He was fearful, says Sawyer, that "someone would leave and tell people and he'd be blamed." Eventually, Sawyer and another cultist, Steven McCarter, who died in Rancho Santa Fe, pressed Do to begin the castrations. Says Sawyer: "I wanted to do it. I was very much in favor of it. It was me and Steve. We flipped a coin to decide who would go first. He won the toss." The surgery took place in Mexico. "It was very traumatic...
...Heaven's Gate 39 had been awaiting the cue to begin their final act. And last fall it apparently came, not in a heavenly vision but on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, a late-night talk-radio show that has become the nation's top meeting place of the reality challenged...
...years on the sale of jets to Latin America. For Madeleine Albright, who argued against rushing into the jet sales and who had vowed to reign supreme over U.S. foreign policy as Clinton's second Secretary of State, the decision represented a defeat. Latin America is thus poised to begin an arms race--a race from which the U.S. will doubtless profit handsomely...
...known for building cars for every purse and purpose." As part of a stunning, perhaps even desperate, act of corporate rebirth, GM is spending a suitably giant-size $6 billion this year to launch a fleet of 16 new vehicles. The goal is to occupy rediscovered market niches, and begin the next decade's equally awesome mission--reclaiming its lost automotive empire...