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5. Condition of domestic economy also causing anxiety as fiscal stringency becomes acute. Seeds of trouble lie in some long-term factors, but are accentuated by uncovered costs of Papandreou economic and social programs and by very large wheat surplus produced by past year's good weather and high subsidies. Administrative immobility reflecting political paralysis of recent months has also had effect. GOG has already cut back capital development program and may shortly have to interrupt work or at least payments on some ongoing projects unless new resources found. While economy still looks reasonably good to ordinary man, it is in fact highly vulnerable to economic and psychological shocks. ... [Read More]
U.S. Department of State - Washington Hyper File
215 Text: Arctic Environment Changes Cause Swings in Global Weather ... [Read More]
Open Skies Treaty
Sensors. Open Skies aircraft may have video, optical panoramic and framing cameras for daylight photography, infra-red line scanners for a day/night capability, and synthetic aperture radar for a day/night all weather capability. Photographic image quality will permit recognition of major military equipment (e.g., permit a State Party to distinguish between a tank and a truck), thus allowing significant transparency of military forces and activities. Sensor categories may be added and capabilities improved by agreement among States Parties. All equipment used in Open Skies must be commercially available to all participants in the regime. ... [Read More]
Open Skies Treaty
Sensors. Open Skies aircraft may have video, optical, panoramic and framing cameras for daylight photography, infra-red line scanners for a day/night capability, and synthetic aperture radar for a day/night, all weather capability. Photographic image quality will permit recognition of major military equipment (e.g., permit a State Party to distinguish between a tank and a truck), thus allowing significant transparency of military forces and activities. Sensor categories may be added and capabilities improved by agreement among States Parties. All equipment used in Open Skies must be commercially available to all participants in the regime. ... [Read More]
Former Soviet States Might Join Open Skies Treaty at Any Time - US Department of State
Sensors. Open Skies aircraft may have video, optical panoramic and framing cameras for daylight photography, infra-red line scanners for a day/night capability, and synthetic aperture radar for a day/night all-weather capability. Photographic image quality will permit recognition of major military equipment (e.g., permit a State Party to distinguish between a tank and a truck), thus allowing significant transparency of military forces and activities. Sensor categories may be added and capabilities improved by agreement among States Parties. All equipment used in Open Skies must be commercially available to all participants in the regime. ... [Read More]
This interest in and commitment to the region's security has notdiminished. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Bush-Gorbachev summit in Malta on December 2-3, 1989. Thoughthe weather was stormy, these two statesmen took bold steps tocalm the international waters. How profoundly appropriate thatMalta was selected as the venue for the ending of the Cold War. ... [Read More]
Environmental Modification Convention
Both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives held hearings, beginning in 1972, and the Senate adopted a resolution in 1973 calling for an international agreement "prohibiting the use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war...." In response to this resolution, the President ordered the Department of Defense to undertake an in-depth review of the military aspects of weather and other environmental modification techniques. The results of this study and a subsequent interagency study led to the U.S. Governments decision to seek agreement with the Soviet Union to explore the possibilities of an international agreement. ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: NATO BRIEFING ON "OPERATION ALLIED FORCE" MAY 28
JERTZ: Ladies and Gentlemen. Good afternoon. Let me give you today's operational update. I have often talked about the weather and its effect on NATO air operations. Let me tell you what Milosevic already knows. For the next 5 days, the weather is on our side. As you can see from this satellite photo and the five-day weather impact, forecast weather through Tuesday of next week, favours the NATO air campaign throughout the area of operations. NATO air forces continue to increase the pressure on Milosevic and his Serb forces. This intensification is demonstrated by the almost 800 sorties flown by our air crews yesterday, about 50% of which, including suppression of enemy air defence sorties, were strike missions. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, September 17
QUESTION: Did they talk about the weather? (Laughter.) Did -- on the subject of the six-party talks, do you have any better understanding of where the North Koreans -- from the Chinese or from anyone else -- on what the North Korean position is? ... [Read More]
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