71.   Cuba will take steps to ratify the worldwide treaty banning chemical weapons, the United Nations announced late Saturday.

72.   Darby town councilors and Ravalli County commissioners passed ordinances this month banning weapons from public buildings.

73.   Ethiopia on Monday called on African countries Monday to give the highest priority to implementing a convention banning chemical weapons.

74.   Foreign ministers to meet and discuss draft treaty to ban weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East.

75.   He accused Washington of torpedoing efforts to give teeth to the treaty banning biological weapons and of trying to undermine the Chemical Weapons Convention.

76.   He and other negotiators said their efforts were encouraged by recent global agreements to ban chemical weapons, extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and eliminate testing of nuclear weapons.

77.   He said complying with the treaty and banning weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East are logical parallel steps to peacemaking between Israel and the Arabs.

78.   He said complying with the treaty and banning weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East were logical parallel steps to peacemaking between Israel and the Arabs.

79.   He said this included an existing treaty to ban biological weapons.

80.   His letter to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali cited U.N. Security Council resolutions banning heavy weapons from Sarajevo under the threat of NATO action.