C.I.S.O.S.

Reports on Russian leader Boris Yeltsin's signing of an agreement with Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich, presidents of Ukraine and Byelorussia, setting up a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Control of strategic nuclear weapons; View that the seats of government are like the courts of Renaissance princes where no one is to be trusted; Emphasis on the force of nationalism in the CIS.