Word: pacts
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...Montreal Protocol is aimed at reducing CFCs, which are used as coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners and are an important ingredient in aerosols and plastic foams. The pact would limit the use of an ozone- destroying group of fire-suppressant chemicals called halons, which some scientists believe cause as much as 20 times the damage of CFCs. Scientists estimate that overall as much as 7% of the ozone belt, which stretches six to 30 miles above the earth, has already been destroyed. Moreover, researchers have found evidence of "holes" in the shield, including one above Antarctica that approaches...
...million tons of CFCs. The only major producer of CFCs that has not yet endorsed the treaty is the Soviet Union, whose representatives said the document would have to be studied in Moscow first. However, Vladimir Zakharov, the chief Soviet delegate, predicted his country would eventually approve the pact...
...question that has drawn little attention so far but will loom large over the summit is whether the Senate can be persuaded to ratify an INF treaty. Both sides have tended to assume that a pact acceptable to a President as conservative as Reagan would whistle through easily, but there are already warnings that ratification will be no cinch. If a treaty is signed in November, ratification debates may begin next February, precisely when the primary campaigns in both parties will be approaching fever pitch. The treaty could well come under fire from an odd coalition of Republican conservatives distrustful...
...agency had more than 25 spies in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations as a result of Casey's determination to improve intelligence gathering...
Shultz said they decided he would visit Moscow Oct. 22-23 to set a date for the summit at which President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will sign a pact eliminating the superpowers' shorter-and medium-range nuclear missiles...