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...critical debate betweennuclear haves and have-notsgot underway today at the United Nations. At issue: whether to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 25-year-old pact designed to block the spread of atomic arms.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays the conference pits the major nuclear powers -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China -- againstThird World countriesthat want them to disarm before giving up the right to such weapons. The major powers want the treaty to be made permanent, but Thompson says smaller countries "think that freezes the advantage." In New York today, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
...least two grassroots groups in Florida are calling for amendments in the state's constitution that would bar illegal immigrants from receivingtaxpayer-paid social services, part of a larger movement to takeCalifornia's Proposition 187beyond thatstate's borders. Similar fights are underway in Texas, Arizona and Colorado. In Orlando, a group called Save Our State today said its effort is part of a campaign to push the issue onto the national agenda by 1996. ButTIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothsays Florida will be a hard political sell, in part becauseGov. Lawton Chiles, a Prop 187 opponent, "feels strongly that...
Russia's new national pastime -- tax evasion -- gets underway this month as millions of people try to decode the one of the world's newest yet most arcane tax systems. Moscow businesses face 51 different taxes, including a 41 percent social security tax, a 13 percent profit tax, a 63 percent tax on importing personal belongings and a levy on guard dogs. Worse, the average Russian worker earned just $1,112 in 1994 and will pay anywhere from 12 percent to 30 percent in income taxes -- if they bother...
Hitz declared that the effort underway to cut the CIA's resources by 27 percent by 1999 is still "not enough," and called for a remodeling of the Agency along the lines of standards set when it was founded nearly 50 years...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences andlibrary campaigns, which are part of FAS, are alsojust getting underway and beginning to contributeto the total, she said