Thom Shanker

Saddam Hussein has responded positively to an eight-point Soviet plan for full and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait, and the U.S. said Thursday night it would study the...

Just 10 days before President Bush flies to Paris to sign the largest disarmament pact in history, work still remains to complete the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, American...

In a fitting end to his American road show, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev bathed in the Bay Area`s adulation Monday as he sought improved trade and political relations along the...

Like many other firms in this defense-dependent area, Frisby Hydraulic opened its doors 50 years ago to service Grumman Corp., a commanding presence on Long Island as the manufacturer of...

East Germany`s eradication of travel restrictions has spawned exuberant calls to rejoin the two Germanys, but reunification of the central European countries faces barriers as formidable as those once posed...

A hundred paces off Red Square, a symbol of Soviet power, a small kiosk sells soft drinks in red, white and blue bottles with the word Pepsi-Cola spelled out in...

The scourge of chemical and biological weapons is as old as warfare itself, made all the more frightening today by progress in technology and the spread of these agents of...

John Tower, ending four days of Senate hearings into his nomination as defense secretary, responded Wednesday to charges of drunkenness and womanizing by declaring that he has no alcohol problem...

Former Sen. John Tower, picked by President Bush for secretary of defense, bragged Wednesday that he was a key player in the massive military buildup of the Reagan years but...

A British crime novel, ''Bodies,'' published in 1986, has a scene in which a distraught father explains to a detective why the father had not objected when his son accepted...