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We've got to get it out of the committee and then we've got to have sixty-seven votes, that's what we've got to do and we're going to try to do it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: U.S. President, Bill Clinton\u003cbr/\u003eBut across town, Jesse Helms brought a trio of former U-S policymakers before the Foreign Relations Panel to challenge passage of the chemical treaty.\u003cbr/\u003eBefore Helms foreign relations panel, three former top defence officials said the treaty is not in America's best interest.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are all kinds of ways of making an international statement but when you bind yourselves to the situation of preventing the country from having the kind of defensive capabilities it needs in a world like this, then I think you are not serving the best interests of the United States and that's why, one of the reasons I think this treaty goes far beyond attempting to set just international standards and speed limits and all those other comforting terms.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Caspar Weinberger, former U.S. Secretary of Defence\u003cbr/\u003e\"Are we aware how vulnerable this nation may be to terrorist attacks? And this treaty will do little to limit such vulnerability.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  James Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defence\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is a real risk that in ratifying the convention and setting forth high standards the U-S would be misinforming the world by misleading people into believing that we had in fact done something with respect to the international controls over the use of chemical weapons.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defence\u003cbr/\u003eBut Democrats favouring the treaty say failure to join the pact could leave the U-S out of key decisions on making and using chemical weapons. \u003cbr/\u003eMore than 160 nations already back the treaty, set to take effect April 29.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This issue now becomes whether or not we are going to ratify in such a way that the interests of our country, and the interests which we champion, and that is the abolition of chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction, that we're going to be allowed to sit at the very table that will decide the rules of the road to determine whether or not that's going to work having unilaterally decided that we will take ourselves out of this game by the year 2004.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Senator Chris Dodd., Democrat, Connecticut\u003cbr/\u003eBut Schlesinger, who was also once a C-I-A director, says joining the pact would expose critical U-S technology to states that back terrorism and aggression. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We are dealing not only with the verification of chemical weapons, we are dealing with the possible industrial espionage in the United States and that industrial espionage is going to be godsend, I repeat, a godsend to foreign intelligence agencies and to the corporations which will feed on those foreign intelligence agencies.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: James Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defence\u003cbr/\u003eThe treaty goes into effect with or without U-S participation, which could be further stalled by more Senate debate.\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, USA, April 8, 1997\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, April 8, 1997, US Pool:\u003cbr/\u003e1. W/S of photo session with Clinton and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. \u003cbr/\u003e2. Cutaway view of US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: President Bill Clinton.\u003cbr/\u003e4. W/S of Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.\u003cbr/\u003e5. C/U of Committee Chairman Jesse Helms.\u003cbr/\u003e6. M/S of James Schlesinger (left), Caspar Weinberger (centre) and Donald Rumsfeld         (right) at hearing.\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway view of members of Senate panel members: (Chris Dodd-left/and John              Kerry) \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: Caspar Weinberger, former U.S. Secretary of Defence.\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: James Schlesinger, former U.S. Secretary of Defence.\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defence.\u003cbr/\u003e12. M/S of hearing.\u003cbr/\u003e13. C/U of Schlesinger.\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat, Connecticut.\u003cbr/\u003e15. M/S of hearing.\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: James Schlesinger.\u003cbr/\u003e17. 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