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Some countries, on the other hand, have shown that they can overlook the death penalty even while they officially decry it. Mexico and the U.S., for example, have an extradition treaty similar to the U.S.-Canada pact. But in 1989, Mexican authorities received no guarantees of mercy from the U.S. before swiftly deporting Ramon Salcido, 29, who had escaped to Mexico after a killing spree in California. Last December, Salcido was convicted on seven counts of murder and sentenced to death. He has appealed and is in San Quentin Prison. In his case, Mexican officials felt that good cross-border...
...advisers at the Pentagon and at coalition headquarters in Riyadh are "good to go" for a ground war, in part because it gives them a chance to clobber the ghosts of Vietnam. Meanwhile, Gorbachev's generals are licking their wounds from Afghanistan, bringing home the pieces of the Warsaw Pact and supervising commando raids against civilians in restive republics. That makes them all the more dyspeptic about their principal rival's pummeling a longtime Soviet client whose northern border is only about 400 miles from the U.S.S.R. Moreover, Operation Desert Storm is decimating a military establishment made up largely...
With the Soviets apparently reverting to their old treaty-cheating ways, negotiations on a pact covering conventional forces in Europe broke down in Vienna last week. Just three months after George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a CFE agreement, U.S. officials apparently felt that the Soviets have been giving them highly suspect estimates of weapons in the treaty region and decided to postpone further formal meetings until March 21. In secret documents, the Soviets assert that they have only 21,000 tanks in Europe; the U.S. says the real number is 42,000. The U.S. expected a tally...
...Soviets argue that these weapons were all moved out of the treaty area under unilateral cutbacks announced earlier by Gorbachev, but Congress is unlikely to be swayed. Administration officials conclude that the CFE pact, once virtually assured of Senate ratification, cannot be submitted for a vote until the ambiguities are cleared...
...BUSH is the herald of the New World Order, Gorbachev tolled the death knell for the old one. After 40 years of a rigidly controlled Soviet bloc, he stunned the world by permitting the impermissible: the democratization of Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact...