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...Chairman John Shalikashvili that Israel would need U.S. troops in the territory to enforce any future treaties with Syria.) While the Clinton Administration has been hinting a treaty might surface soon, TIME State Department correspondent Ann Simmons says a more realistic timeframe -- if there is one -- suggests a spring pact...
Terrorism is always a possibility, but the risks pale beside the opportunity of a pact with Syria. Even with Israel at peace with its other neighbors, Syria might seek to undermine the existing agreements if it remains the only state on Israel's borders still at war with it. Peace with Syria would also calm the region, help secure Western access to Middle East oil at reasonable prices and further isolate Iraq and Iran, the bad actors supporting the world's worst terrorists...
...GATT world-trade pact got a big boost when Republican Senate leader Bob Dole and the White House came to terms on changes to the treaty. To garner Dole's support and assuage his concerns about American sovereignty under the pact, the Administration agreed to create a review panel that would monitor the fairness of trade-dispute decisions, which will be adjudicated by a newly created body called the World Trade Organization. If the American review panel feels the U.S. is regularly getting a raw deal, it could formally recommend withdrawal from the treaty. The efforts of Dole and some...
...example, that he favors a "surgical" operation to decapitate Fidel Castro, but he doesn't have the power to make something like that happen. His rough agenda as chief of the foreign policy panel, while conservative, is not wholly outside the mainstream. His doubts about Clinton's controversial pact with North Korea to curb its nuclear program in exchange for new light-water reactors financed by Japan and South Korea are shared by other Republicans. He will look into drug trafficking and human-rights violations in Burma, joined by Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry. He wants to withhold foreign aid from...
...quick stop in Budapest, Hungary, welcomed the kick off of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with a schedule for scuttling 9,000 U.S. and former Soviet nuclear warheads by the turn of the century, Boris Yeltsin complained about NATO's vote last week to consider membership for former Warsaw Pact nations. "Why sow the seeds of distrust?" Yeltsin rhetorically asked. "After all, we are no longer enemies. We are all partners." He warned that NATO's action could force progress against the Cold War to "sink into oblivion." A Clinton Administration official dismissed Yeltsin's criticism as "alarmist...