Issue No. 17, September 1992


Table of Contents

• Congress Should Defer Arms Sales Decisions
• Sales in Progress
• Miscellany

Issue No. 16, July 1992


Table of Contents

• Sales in progress
• F-15 lobby update
• Notes from some hearings
• Legislation Passed and Pending

Issue No. 15, May 1992


Table of Contents

• Congress Should Enforce Existing Legislation
• Sales in progress

    Naval eqipment for Korea
    Turkey transfers US-supplied arms to Pakistan without US consent
    US arms industry on international auction block?
    Arms to Taiwan
    $1.8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia proposed
    Saudi F-15 update
    Major revisions to ITAR proposed
• Notes from some hearings

    Military Aid to Africa
    Pre-Invasion Policies Toward Iraq
    US Arms Sales Policies
    Pre-Invasion Policies Toward Iraq: II
• Lesiglation Passed and Pending

    Russian Aid Contingent on Rocket Sale
    Conversion Bills
    Berman Opposes Air-Show Subsidies
    Military Aid Rescheduled from FY92 Funds

Issue No. 13-14, March-April 1992


Table of Contents

• Sales in progress

    Missile Proliferation Sanctions Invoked
    Radars for Turkey Proposed
    F-16 Sale to Turkey Finalized
    Patriot/Hawk Sale to Kuwait
    TOW Missiles to Egypt
    Commercial transfers announced in late April
• Speeches, letters, etc

    HFAC Chair Warns State Department to shape up on arms licensing
    Bi-partisan opposition to Saudi F-15 sale
    Berman opposes "defensive" missiles
• Notes from some hearings

    HFAC Favors Non-Proliferation Fund
        Chemical weapons deproliferation
        Anti-ballistic missile proliferation
    State Responds to Human Rights Criticism
    Cheney Cites Danger of Conventional Weapons Spread
    US Forces in Korea
    Pacific Command
    Central Command
        Urges arms to Pakistan
        No more arms to Iran!
        Arms control in Iraq?
        Urges more arms to Saudi Arabia
        Control freaks
    Army Chief of Staff on Future Threats
        JEC Hearing on Nonproliferation, Part II
        Restraint by US is needed
        Perm Five effort not enough
        State Dept. on export control and arms control successes
        East Europe/Soviet export controls
        New North Korean ballistic missile?
        Commerce Department
        Pentagon's nonapocalyptic threats
    Soviet "Brain Drain" Not Happening
    Bartholemew on Bush Arms Transfer Policy
        HFAC still favors moratorium
        Missiles contentious issue
        Info-sharing procedures
        Sales volume belies success of arms transfer control intiative
        What about a Russian fire sale?
    Iraqi Compliance Record
    CIA Chief Gates Renders Another Threat Assessment
        Residual Iraqi threat
        Iran
        North Korea
    Foreign Ops. Hearing on Proliferation
        Nuclear Weapons
        Ballistic Missiles
    Third World Nuclear/Missile Threat
        Low-tech delivery more likely ICBM
        MTCR: useful but incomplete
• Legislation Passed and Pending

    Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Regulatory Improvement Act of         1992
    China-MFN
    Military Aid to Peru Suspended
    Arms Ban for Burma
    Turkey
    Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992

Issue No. 11-12, January-February 1992


Table of Contents

• Arms Sales Driving Threat Scenarios
• Sales in progress

    Thailand buys F-16s
    Saudi Patriot sale set to be finalized
    Congress receives "Javits List"
    Chinese sanctions dropped for written MTCR pledge
    Several transfers announced in late February
    Sales policy toward Iran and Syria altered
• Speeches, letters, etc

    Report on Iraqi ceasefire compliance
    Aspin's "Iraq equivalent" formula
    Pressler amendement proliferation
    US companies assisted Iraq with weapons programs
    "Third World Military Power?"
    US arms sales to Mideast
    "Do as we say, not as we do"
• Notes from some hearings

    CIA on the threat
        Nuclear proliferation
        Missile proliferation
        Threat to US
        CBW proliferation
        Iraq still menacing
        Pakistan-India nuclear arms race
    DIA on the threat
    HASC Defense Industrial Base Hearings
    State Department's Human Rights Report Critiqued
        Law being flouted
        State Department biased
        Pressle amendment under assault
    Bartholomew on Russian Arms Control
        Export Controls
        MTCR, NPT and arms sales
    Naval intelligence on the Threat
        Persian Gulf
        Korean Peninsula
        Europe
        Latin America
        Naval threat
    Baker on Foreign Aid Request
        Arms sales anxieties
        China and the MTCR
        What's up with Jordan?
    Baker on Foreign Aid Request: Part II
        Israeli loan guarantees dominate proceedings
        Russian arms sales
        Military assistance to El Salvador?
        China!
• Legislation Passed and Pending

    Emergency Anti-Recession Act of 1992
    The Defense Industrial Stabilization and Community Transition Act
    The Defense Industrial Diversification Act
    The Defense Economic Adjustment Act
    Developing Countries Demilitarization Act of 1992
    Third World Development and Threat Reduction Act of 1992
    International Peace and Security Resolution
    --On Arms Sales to Arab Countries

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