SENATE TO DISCUSS U.S. OK FOR ARMS TO IRAN

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The Republican-controlled Senate plans to discuss anagreement by the Clinton administration to allow the sale of Russian weaponsand technology to Iran. Senate staffers said the hearing will take place on Tuesday. They saidthe hearing would focus on a 1995 agreement between Vice President Al Goreand then-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on Moscow's arms salesto Iran.