The issue of whether the accord covers such weapons has been percolating within the Administration for weeks.

And the accord covered other things as well, like rail connections, hot lines between leaders, offices in each other's capitals and joint economic projects.

The accord does not cover several hundred people who say the drugs gave them primary pulmonary hypertension, an often fatal lung disorder.

The accord also covers four smaller sites in the Philippines.

The new 10-year accord covers trade in industrial and agricultural goods and will remove quantitative trade restrictions.

The accord does not cover the forces of other Western or Soviet-bloc nations.

But that accord did not cover either cases brought by individual smokers, like the one decided on Monday by the jury in San Francisco.

The accord covers a wide range of activities, from human rights accounting to restructuring the military and redistributing land.

The initial accord did not cover items that had peaceful uses but also could play vital roles in the manufacture of bomb fuel and parts.

The accord covers development and production through the early 1990's.