1.   Norman Schwarzkopf, advocate an immediate international ban.

2.   President Clinton is on the verge of Deciding how best to pursue an international ban on land mines.

3.   China declared its support for the international ban on the importation of African ivory in June last year.

4.   The Centre supports the continuation of limited ivory trading, in defiance of an international ban.

5.   Norway resumed commercial whaling earlier this year, defying the international ban, claiming that the minke whale was not a threatened species.

6.   Butch Reynolds yesterday vowed to defy an international ban and continue his quest to run in the US Olympic trials.

7.   THE Government is to fight a move to introduce a permanent international ban on the dumping of radioactive waste at sea.

8.   An international ban would also not cover antitank mines, which pose less of a threat to civilians because they do not explode as easily.

9.   An international ban on all nuclear tests has been a goal of American presidents dating back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.