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After the Treaty
Schell, Jonathan | November 8, 1999 issue

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The article discusses the debate regarding the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) among U.S. politicians during 1999. When the Republican majority in the Senate voted down the CTBT on October 13, 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton called their act "partisanship at its worst." The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Jesse Helms, who had bottled the treaty up in his committee for two years, then sprung it on the U.S. Senate only when its certain defeat had been clandestinely arranged. The similarities between the way the majority handled the test ban vote and the way it handled impeachment earlier in the year are in fact striking. Both causes were supported only by Republicans. Both defied American as well as world opinion.

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INTERNATIONAL obligations; UNITED States -- Politics & government -- 1993-2001; INTERNATIONAL relations; CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; HELMS, Jesse; UNITED States
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