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President Clinton today assuredPakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhuttothat he will try to ease sanctions against her country. In a White House meeting,Bhuttocomplained to Clinton that her government has paid the U.S. more than $600 million for a shipment of fighter jets, both of which the U.S. kept after Pakistan developed anuclear weaponscapability. Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), chief sponsor of the sanctions, insists that Congress must hold firm because Pakistan has nuclear bombs. Bhutto maintains that Pakistan has not built any nuclear weapons...
...sales racked up by the rest of the world's nations combined. U.S. arms-transfer agreements in 1993 totaled $22.3 billion, eclipsing second-place Russia's $2.8 billion and Britain's $2.3 billion third-place finish. The Pentagon sponsored weapons sales to 86 nations; furthermore, Washington approved the shipment of $2.2 billion in free weapons and military supplies to some 50 countries and sanctioned commercial arms deals with 146 of the world's 190 nations...
...equipped Bangladeshis in Bihac who are completely surrounded by advancing Serb forces. Croatian Serbs sent guided missiles at the U.N. armed personnel carrier; when other U.N. troops tried to rescue the soldiers, they came under sniper fire. But as they blew hot in Bihac, Serbs allowed the first fuel shipment in weeks to reach U.N. forces in Sarajevo.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...before, much less part of a hazardous clandestine operation. Suddenly, they were being whisked aboard C- 5 transports for the flight to Kazakhstan, the huge and barren former Soviet republic. Their mission: to pack more than 1,300 lbs. of highly enriched uranium into barrels for shipment back to the U.S. to prevent the material from falling into the wrong hands. They had only a few weeks to perform the delicate procedure. The harsh Central Asian winter was coming, and once it arrived, it would be difficult to fly out of the desolate Kazakh site...
...violated the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. Attempting to further isolate the Bosnian Serbs from their longtime backers in Serbia, the U.N. Security Council voted to ease minor sanctions against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. The move came after Serbia's President agreed to enforce an embargo on the shipment of war supplies to the Serbs in Bosnia...