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...three have promised to banish the weapons entirely, Ukraine has been wavering on its commitment. A growing number of its leaders regard their atomic arsenal as a bargaining chip to trade for Western aid and security guarantees -- and increasingly as a safeguard against possible Russian aggression that they are loath to relinquish...
...likewise. France has cracked down on the use of its Minitel -- a widely distributed video-text telephone service -- for child- | prostitution ads. But police face a daunting task in stemming the sex trade. Many of the foreign-women victims, unable to speak the language of the country, are loath to file complaints for fear of being injured by pimps or deported by authorities. And faced with the difficulty of sorting out which women are prostitutes by choice and which are coerced, many officials shrug off the problem. "Almost all the girls who come to work in cabarets know what they...
...international hunting bans because past efforts to exploit the beasts commercially have driven their populations into precipitous decline. Countries that have well- managed elephant herds, including Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana, are eager to sell ivory, just as Norway and Japan want to kill whales. But conservationists are loath to exempt specific nations from the ivory-trade ban for fear that any traffic in tusks will bring a reprise of the rampant cheating that occurred before sales became illegal...
...rights to the multimillion-dollar market for T shirts bearing Jordan's image. "In marketing, Nike is far more powerful than the league," says N.B.A. deputy commissioner Russ Granik. "They are the giant, and we're the mouse." Player representatives, seeing endorsement money rolling in to Nike athletes, are loath to criticize the company. "There are no rules barring what Nike is doing," says Charles Grantham, executive director of the N.B.A. Players Association...
...SURRENDER to an unbelieving world he just knows is likely to clap him in jail for life? Federal authorities besieging the compound of the Branch Davidian cult outside Waco, Texas, have found no answers. After the Feb. 28 shoot-out that led to perhaps 14 deaths, the feds are loath to rush the cult's heavily armed compound again. Interminable telephone talks with cult leader David Koresh have got nowhere. Koresh did let Kathryn Schroeder, whose husband died in the shoot-out, and an adult man, the first to be let go, come out Friday. That left, it is thought...