1.   The treaty will come into force on the stroke of midnight tonight.

2.   Legally, the treaty would come into effect once ratified by the parliaments concerned.

3.   Its external borders shall be the borders of the FRG and the GDR and shall be definitive from the date on which the present treaty comes into force.

4.   Helms, R-N.C., who is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, had resisted allowing the treaty to come to a vote.

5.   Helms, a Republican from North Carolina and chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, had resisted allowing the treaty to come to a vote.

6.   If that treaty had come into existence, the situation would have been completely different.

7.   The treaty must come into force soon by inviting China and other nations to become part of it.

8.   The treaties have come in exchange for giving U.S. carriers antitrust immunity to coordinate transatlantic operations with European carriers.

9.   The treaty comes up for a vote on Thursday.

10.   Yet many responsible Republicans know better and would probably ignore the platform once the treaty comes to a Senate vote.