Word: decisiones
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With this decision, the Senate has taken a dangerous step of potentially global proportions. While there was never a guarantee that other nations would sign the treaty based on the United States' decision, it is understood that we would serve as one of the primary supports upon which the CTBT...
India and Pakistan, which both recently alarmed the world with news of their own underground tests, had indicated their decision would be based on the United States'. Many other countries are also looking for U.S. commitment before taking a stand. Following the vote, several nations condemned the Senate for its...
The most shameful part of the vote is not that the wrong decision was made, but that it was made for the worst reason: partisanship. Realizing there weren't enough votes for ratification, President Clinton and many other Congressional Democrats asked Lott and the Republican leaders to take the treaty...
Realizing what was at stake, Britain, France and Germany also asked for a delayed vote. Lott, however, refused to compromise when Clinton wouldn't promise in writing that he wouldn't bring it back up for vote before the end of his presidential term in 2001. The fact that the...
Munafo says the women who grappled with that decision emerged with an entirely new perspective.