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- GRAPEVINE, Page 9Read My Lips: No Test Ban
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- Now that the Soviet Union has collapsed, many Americans
- believe it is time for the U.S. to join its former enemy in a
- NUCLEAR TESTING moratorium. The Administration opposes a ban.
- Bill Clinton has made it an election issue, but the fight is
- only beginning. The House and more than half the Senate support
- the one-year test ban written into the 1993 defense
- authorization bill. President Bush may veto the bill to kill the
- ban. Four more nuclear tests are planned this year, and six
- next. The Administration insists that testing is needed to
- ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. arsenal. But at
- least three upcoming blasts are designed primarily to test the
- effects on Star Wars equipment that would be powered by nuclear
- explosions.
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