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Adrian Cronauer is a military misfit. As protagonist of the first major service comedy about Viet Nam -- and what sometimes seems to be the last, dead-on surreal word on the subject -- he appears in Saigon in 1965 out of uniform and out of step with army manners, protocol and discipline. An irrepressibly irreverent motormouth, he is unable to fit the format of Armed Forces Radio (basically hygiene lectures and Mantovani records), where he is the new disk jockey...
...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...
Among the protocol's signers are the U.S., Canada, Japan and the twelve- nation European Community; the U.S. and the E.C. annually produce about three- fourths of the world's 1 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...
...Montreal negotiations, which capped nearly five years of talks, lasted nine days and involved some 150 scientists, environmentalists and industry representatives. The protocol allows developing countries to increase CFC use for ten years, in the interest of making more available to them items like refrigerators. It permits the Soviet Union, which plans its economy in five- year cycles, to go ahead with production scheduled through 1990. Thus the amount of the chemicals produced worldwide will actually grow by as much as 15% in the coming decade, cutting the real decrease by 1999 to just...
...dismantled, the warheads will revert to complete American control and be treated the same way as all other warheads covered by the treaty -- that is, they will be taken apart. None of this will be spelled out in the treaty, however, or even in a side letter; the protocol to the treaty will merely contain a vague reference to warheads "which by unilateral decision have been released from cooperative programs." That leaves two points still to be resolved: the timetable for scrapping missiles and warheads, and the method of verifying that they are in fact destroyed. Both sides considered these...