U.S. provides slick brochure on arms-control deals

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Link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=788957

Snip: <U.S. Quietly Drops Arms-Control Deals From Slick Brochure; Noise
Follows
By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent
The Associated Press
May. 25, 2005 - With a few keystrokes, an official U.S. brochure
eliminated some historic arms-control deals, angered the champions
of disarmament, and showed again that in the paper deluge of a
global conference, what's left out can be as telling as what's put
in.

In this case, the publication's "rewriting of history," as one
critic put it, also illustrates in black and white a dispute that
has helped bog down the 188-nation conference reviewing the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty.

The monthlong conference entered its final three days on Wednesday
with uncertain prospects for producing any major agreements to
tighten controls on the spread of atomic arms, or to speed nuclear
disarmament.

The brochure, slickly produced by the State Department and
distributed to hundreds of delegates, lists milestones in arms
control since the 1980s, while touting reductions in the U.S.
nuclear arsenal. But the timeline omits a pivotal agreement, the
1996 treaty to ban nuclear tests, a pact negotiated by the Clinton
administration and ratified by 121 nations but now rejected under
President Bush.>