[net.politics] [Soviet] Treaty Violations

mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (08/25/84)

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          In fact many of the activities the Reagan Administration calls
          "questionable"  would only be violations of treaties which the
          Reagan administration has refused to ratify or support.  Not only
          has the Reagan administration been totally unsuccessful in
          preventing a single Soviet missile from being deployed but treaties
          already negotiated have been jettisoned: the Threshold Test Ban
          Treaty, the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty, the Non-
          Proliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.  President
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And not just treaties with the Soviet Union, either.  What about
boundary water pollution treaties with Canada?  The general mood
seems to be that a treaty is fine so long as the other guy is
inconvenienced, but if it the USA, well, we're big and strong, so
no-one can stop us from tearing up this scrap of paper.  Not good
for the defenders of the free world.
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Martin Taylor
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porges@inmet.UUCP (08/29/84)

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inmet!porges    Aug 27 23:24:00 1984

	I find it especially galling when conservatives complain that the
Soviets have violated this treaty, that treaty, and SALT II -- a treaty
which those same conservatives caused not to be ratified by the Senate.
Now really...
					-- Don Porges
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