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That leaves Powell to tinker on the margins. He's not averse to walking away from the ABM treaty. He's for Rice's "grand bargain" to couple a new defense shield with way-low offensive arsenals. But he's at odds with the others on how and when to get out of the treaty. He would like to do it more delicately, while making a sincere effort to talk Russia into agreement...
Stem-cell research, while promising, still lies on the fringes of science. I imagine the Bush Administration is glad for any debate that turns attention away from its dismantling of environmental legislation for its friends in the power industry, its scrapping of the ABM Treaty, its support of the expensive and useless missile-defense shield, its lack of a Middle East policy and so on. I hope that in the future the news media will use better judgment about what needs to be in the national spotlight. BRIAN STEBLEN Rochester...
TIME: What about ABM...
Powell: We have said consistently that we are going for missile defense, and sooner or later our efforts in missile defense will run into the constraints of the ABM treaty. [The President] feels very strongly about it. We all do and are all committed...
...expanded her original role as "traffic cop" to include public explanations of policy, like her speech at the National Press Club two months ago, while great communicator Powell has been strangely silent. Rice, not Powell, went to Moscow to jawbone Russian President Vladimir Putin into dropping the 1972 ABM treaty that is blocking Bush's missile-defense plans...