Ban Dropped by America On Uranium Rules
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VIENNA, Austria — Facing international opposition, American negotiators at a nuclear meeting have dropped their insistence on a ban of uranium enrichment technology to non-nuclear states, diplomats said yesterday.
The compromise, which moves America closer to the positions of other nations selling nuclear technology and material, is important because it could give ammunition to Iran, which is under U.N. sanctions for defying a Security Council demand that it give up its enrichment program.
