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Relates that Secretary of State George Schultz is expected to announce a United States proposal giving the United Nations additional powers to investigate the possible use of chemical weapons anywhere in the world. The proposal follows US allegations that a West German firm played a central role in the construction of a huge Libyan chemical weapons factory. The Geneva Protocol of 1925; Suspected chemical weapons use by Arab nations.

Informs that the United States government has discovered that the West German firm Imhausen-Chemie played a central role in the construction of a Libyan nerve gas plant. US diplomats have issued extremely high-level diplomatic protests over the matter. The Libyan plant is the largest chemical weapons factory in the Third World and, according to analysts, could not have been built without Western assistance.

Recounts the Thanksgiving message from President George Bush, in which he hailed the emergence of a `new Europe,' and affirmed an American commitment to the Atlantic alliance. Will seek the assurance of Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader, that the reforms in Eastern Europe will continue.

Discusses President George Bush's long-delayed proposal to ban weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East in an effort to find the middle ground between his pledge to curb the region's arms race and the political pressures frustrating American diplomacy since the Persian Gulf War. He also proposed that the world's five biggest arms suppliers meet to establish guidelines for the region.

Says that Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev pleaded for $100 billion in economic aid from the democratic world, asserting that it would be well worth it to the West to bolster global security by priming a Soviet recovery. Opposition from the White House.

Considers the contrasts between President George Bush's success abroad in Eastern Europe and the Persian Gulf to his unpopularity as a leader in the domestic arena. Previous decline to visit Eastern Europe; Bush's grueling schedule.

Says that President George Bush flew to Texas to begin staking a claim to history, arguing in an occasionally vivid speech that he correctly spent his four-year term asserting the United States of America's global leadership in an era of change. (Excerpts from address given by President Bush at Texas A&M University, page A25.)

Reports that while President-elect Bill Clinton puts together an administration devoted to keeping his promises on domestic affairs, the outgoing Bush team is leaving him with a series of problems abroad that could force him to devote much more time than he had planned to foreign policy. Contention that very little attention was focused on foreign problems since former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and President George Bush went on the campaign trail; More.

Reports that Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, launching a new broadside against the Bush Administration's foreign policy, charged that President George Bush was overly eager to befriend `potentates and dictators' and said he would be more prepared than Bush to use trade sanctions or even force to protect human rights abroad. (Excerpts from speech by Clinton on U.S. role, page A21.)

States that President George Bush and his advisers confronted presidential contender Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton head on for the first time on foreign policy, opening the new front by calling his ideas on Yugoslavia `reckless' and painting Bush as the candidate who can be trusted with the nation's security. Bush's emphasis on two aspects of his tenure that paint him as successful in foreign affairs--Communism's fall and the Persian Gulf War.

Presents the third article of a series on President George Bush's record. Focuses on the Persian Gulf War, and deals with the question of whether Bush could have avoided the war if he had moved to restrain rather than reward Saddam Hussein , the Iraqi leader, earlier.

Presents the second article of a series on President George Bush's record. Says that Bush has shown at least two personalities in his conduct of the nation's foreign policy, sometimes being the consumate seasoned statesman, but at other times seemed distracted and ineffective in a world undergoing dizzying change.

Reports that Walid Saud Abdullah, the Iraqi proxy government's foreign minister in Kuwait, threatened to take hostages or nationalize foreign property in the face of international calls for sanctions in response to President Saddam Hussein's takeoverof his oil-rich neighbor; Response from United States President George Bush.