C.W.C. Watch #1: Russia Defers Ratification, Seeks Payments For Compliance And A ‘Seat At The Table’ Anyway
*** This is the first in a series of papers that will monitor the implementation -- or non-implementation -- of...
Month: April 1997
Vote On C.W.C. Proves A Defining Moment: Lott Fails Test, New Security-Minded Leaders Emerge
(Washington, D.C.): It was positively surreal: Against the backdrop of televised images of emergency personnel in chemical protective gear trying...
Bill Clinton’s ‘Changes’ To The C.W.C. Are Not ‘Good-Enough-For-Government-Work’
(Washington, D.C.): The surprise announcement yesterday that Senator Bob Dole now supports the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is all the...
Truth or Consequences #12: The C.W.C.’s Technology Transfer Provisions Will Exacerbate the Chemical Weapons Threat
(Washington, D.C.): Proponents of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) are panicked: With the fate of this treaty now clearly in...
Truth or Consequences #11: Clinton’s ‘Changes’ To The C.W.C. Are Necessary, But Clearly Not Sufficient
(Washington, D.C.): One way or the other, by this Thursday night the Senate will have determined who to believe in...
White House Lobbying Group Discredits Itself, Not Luntz Poll, In Attack On Finding That Americans Oppose A Flawed C.W.C.
(Washington, D.C.): On 14 April, a U.S. government interagency team responsible for coordinating the lobbying effort on the controversial Chemical...
Insecure Patents Could Translate Into National Insecurity
(Washington, D.C.): The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote tomorrow on H.R. 400, the so-called "Patent Improvement Act."...
Center Roundtable on Tiltrotor Technology Resonates With Members of Congress, Senior Military and Industry
(Washington, D.C.): On 9 April 1997, the Center for Security Policy convened the latest in its series of high-level Roundtable...
Arms Control Mystique
The Wall Street Journal, 14 April 1997 In the impending vote on the Chemical Weapons Convention, ratification would require a...
Powerful New Voice Joins The C.W.C. Debate: Steve Forbes Launches Campaign Against ‘A Bum Treaty’
(Washington, D.C.): In an appearance yesterday on CBS' "Face The Nation" program, Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes, Jr. declared his forceful...
Treaties Alone Will Do Little
By James Schlesinger The Wall Street Journal, 14 April 1997 James Schlesinger, a former secretary of defense and secretary of...
New National Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Opposition To A Flawed Chemical Weapons Convention
(Washington, D.C.): On 4-5 April 1997, the Luntz Research Companies conducted a national poll of 900 American adults concerning the...
Senate Testimony Regarding Ratification of Chemical Warfare Convention
Senate Testimony Regarding Ratification of Chemical Warfare Convention April 9th, 1997 STATEMENT OF DOUGLAS J. FEITH, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY...
Truth or Consequences #10: Clinton’s White House Snow Job Cannot Conceal the Chemical Weapons Convention’s Defects
(Washington, D.C.): The latest installment in the Clinton Administration's campaign to browbeat the United States Senate into ratifying a fatally...
Just Which Chemical Weapons Convention Is Colin Powell Supporting — And Does He Know The Difference?
(Washington, D.C.): Starting tomorrow, the Clinton Administration intends to make General Colin Powell -- the former Chairman of the Joint...
Dangerous Upshot of Clinton-Gore’s China ‘Bonding’: Strategic Penetration of U.S. Investment Portfolios
(Washington, D.C.): Press reports have begun to focus on a Chinese entrepreneur, Wang Jun, as one of the most intriguing...