They are threatening immediate mandatory sanctions if we proceed with the test.

Congress tried last year to enact mandatory sanctions against foreign companies that provide chemical weapons but failed in the face of opposition from the Reagan Administration.

He also called on the Security Council to place comprehensive mandatory sanctions on South Africa.

The Security Council also imposed selective mandatory economic sanctions, which were later made comprehensive.

It has also joined in imposing an arms embargo on the Baghdad regime and in voting mandatory economic sanctions.

But it was not nearly enough to satisfy influential members of Congress who want to make sanctions mandatory and automatic in certain situations.

But Secretary of State Baker says mandatory sanctions limit the President's discretion.

What is your understanding, and if you all did mean to endorse mandatory sanctions, why didn't the communique or the statement say so?

But he added that "the question now is whether we can negotiate agreement on mandatory sanctions."

The resolutions called for mandatory sanctions to force the South African Government to end apartheid.