Fed up with increasing rates, customers, notablychemical, coal, agribusiness and utility companies, are complaining that these are evidence that the railroads are abusing their market power.
The genesis of Mr. Bush's monomania about using arms control to eliminate chemical weapons has been documented in numerous Center for Security Policy papers, notably "Bush's Myopia on Chemical Weapons Keeps Him From Seeing the Handwriting on the Arms Control Wall, " (No. 91-P 37, 13 May 1991).
Opponents of the U.S. chemical capability in Congress notably House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Dante Fascell will welcome this agreement as a means of quickly terminating the American binary modernization program.
The Geneva Convention banning the use of chemical weapons by states has been on the books since 1925 and has been violated repeatedly, most notably of late by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.