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...Russia agreed to allow mutual inspections of each other's plutonium-storage facilities, enabling both countries to better verify compliance with nuclear dismantling accords. Russia also agreed to stop producing weapons-grade plutonium soon, and President Clinton announced an extension of the U.S. moratorium on nuclear-weapons testing through September...
...still support immigration as a source of low- wage labor. But other conservatives call for immigration restrictions to halt the cultural transmogrification of American society. One of the most ^ outspoken advocates for the latter is Daniel Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, who favors a moratorium on all immigration, insisting that "nations do not have an unlimited capacity to absorb immigrants without irrevocably altering their own character" -- an echo of a view enunciated more than a century...
...earlier decision to close the Chernobyl nuclear power station by the end of 1993. Chernobyl was the site in 1986 of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident. The energy-strapped country, which spends more than 10% of its national budget on cleaning up Chernobyl, also lifted a moratorium on building more nuclear plants...
...this week of John Shattuck, the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights. The Christopher initiative promptly ran into an announcement by China that, despite public entreaties from 20 nations including the U.S., it had carried out its 38th atomic-weapons test -- in defiance of an informal test-ban moratorium that Washington has supported...
...general, the moratorium appears to be working. Most whale stocks are at least holding steady, and some have begun to recover. For example, populations of humpbacks off South Africa have grown substantially. A study by the National Marine Fisheries Service says there were an estimated 2,050 blue whales off California in 1991, up from several hundred in 1980. And California gray whales, which migrate 13,000 miles a year between Baja California and the Bering and Chukchi seas, have increased from several thousand to 25,000 since the 1940s; they were taken off the U.S. Endangered Species List late...