One day a salvage team from the financially desperate Nimbus Terraform Corporation stumbled across a forgotten vault and, despite interplanetary treaties outlawing intrusion, sent an experienced survey crew to investigate.

At a conference in Ottawa, in October 1996, Foreign Minister Axworthy called on the diplomats to return in December 1997 and sign a treaty outlawing anti-personnel mines.

The Senate gave final legislative approval tonight to a change in American laws that will permit the United States to join 97 other countries in an international treaty outlawing genocide.

Every morning for two decades, Mr. Proxmire made a speech imploring the Senate to approve the international treaty outlawing genocide.

LEAD: At last, at long last, after 40 years, the United States has joined 97 other countries in a treaty outlawing genocide.

Who could be opposed to a treaty outlawing the killing of human beings?

These arms control talks would eventually lead to the Biological Weapons Convention, the international treaty outlawing biological warfare.

February 19 - After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.

The United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.

None of these activities violate the 1972 treaty outlawing biological weapons.