DATE=10/4/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=TEST BAN ONITE (S-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-254616
BYLINE=DEBORAH TATE
DATELINE=LOS ANGELES
CONTENT=
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        // eds.:  Clinton scheduled to arrive at Andrews 
AFB 6am edt, Monday //

INTRO:   President Clinton is returning to Washington 
after a three-day trip to Nevada and California to 
raise money for Democratic candidates in next year's 
general elections.     Once back at the White House, 
Mr. Clinton will try to persuade a reluctant 
Republican-led Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Test 
Ban Treaty in a vote scheduled for next week.  
Correspondent Deborah Tate reports from Los Angeles.

Text:  Clinton administration officials and 
Congressional Democrats acknowledge the Senate lacks 
the 67 votes - or two-thirds majority - necessary to 
ratify the test ban treaty, and will work this week to 
try to persuade majority Republicans that the pact is 
in the U.S. interest.

Republican leaders say the treaty is flawed because it 
cannot be verified.  

Unnamed Central Intelligence Agency officials made a 
similar point in the Washinigton Post newspaper 
Sunday.   They are quoted as saying they are not able 
to monitor low-level nuclear tests by Russia precisely 
enough to ensure compliance with the treaty.

But White House officials disagree - saying the 
accord, which Mr. Clinton signed three years ago, 
would give the United States more tools to verify 
compliance, while constraining other nations from 
testing.

It is an argument Mr. Clinton is expected to 
underscore Tuesday when he addresses the issue at a 
defense bill signing ceremony at the Pentagon.  
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