Attention ‘New Democrats’: The New Republic Explains Why Tony Lake Should Not Head The CIA
(Washington, D.C.): In its 24 March 1997 edition, the magazine reputed to be required reading for President Clinton, Vice President...
Year: 1997
Chemical Reaction: A bad treaty on chemical weapons
By Douglas J. Feith, New Republic, 24 March 24 It would seem an indisputable good: a treaty to eliminate poison...
Truth or Consequences #8: The C.W.C. Will Exacerbate The Proliferation Of Chemical Warfare Capabilities
(Washington, D.C.): In recent days, proponents of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) have taken to dissembling about the clear meaning...
No to the Chemical Arms Treaty
By James Schlesinger, Caspar Weinberger, And Donald Rumsfeld Washington Post, 05 March 1997 The phrase "damning with faint praise" is...
Truth or Consequences #7: Schlesinger, Rumsfeld and Weinberger Rebut Scowcroft and Deutch on the C.W.C.
(Washington, D.C.): Today's Washington Post featured an op.ed. article by three of the most distinguished public servants of the latter...
Why Tony Lake Is In Trouble In The Senate
(Washington, D.C.): As President Clinton and his allies on Capitol Hill turn up the heat on behalf of his controversial...
Gen. Schwartzkopf Tells Senate He Shares Critics’ Concerns About Details of the Chemical Weapons Convention
(Washington, D.C.): Under questioning before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, General Norman Schwartzkopf -- commander of the allied forces...
A Place To Start on Campaign Finance Reform: C.M.A. Should Refrain From Putting Senators in Compromising Positions On the Chemical Weapons Convention
(Washington, D.C.): Last night, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA), an organization representing some 190 large American and multinational chemical producers,...
Har Homa Is a Test of the ‘Peace Process’: Arab Violence Will Prove the Process to be Simply Warfare by Other Means
(Washington, D.C.): The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to announce today that it will go ahead...
Caspian Watch # 5: Senator Byrd Takes the Lead in Securing U.S. Access To 200 Billion Barrels of Oil in the Caspian Sea
(Washington, D.C.): An important turning point may have been reached last week with regard to American policy toward the largest...
The ‘great game’ in play in Azerbaijan
By S. Rob Sobhani Washington Times, 20 February 1997 During her recent confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,...
Deng’s Demise is an Opportunity to Take Stock, Change Course on One-Sided U.S. Policy of ‘Engagement’ with China
(Washington, D.C.): The long-awaited (and possibly long-postponed) announcement of Deng Xiao Ping's passing offers the United States a long-overdue opportunity...
Truth or Consequences #6: The C.W.C. Will Not Prevent Chemical Terrorism Against the U.S. or its Interests
(Washington, D.C.): In recent weeks, proponents of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) have cited the contribution this Convention would make...
‘A Bridge Too Far’? Pending Defense Industry Merger Raises Serious National Security, Competitiveness Concerns
(Washington, D.C.): In 1993, then-Secretary of Defense William Perry made it clear that the Clinton Administration believed that consolidation in...
At What Price NATO Expansion?
(Washington, D.C.): Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's world tour is taking on the hallmarks of a fire-sale -- a frantic...
Truth or Consequences #5: The C.W.C. Will Not Be Good for Business — To Say Nothing of The National Interest
(Washington, D.C.): Proponents of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) now awaiting consideration by the United States Senate often declare that...