Word: abm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...meetings with Canada?s Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Monday, and with Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair later this month. The British share many of Europe?s concerns, while Chretien issued a joint statement with Russia?s President Vladimir Putin late last year insisting that Washington respect the ABM treaty...
...Rumsfeld toned down for his meeting with the Europeans, soft-pedaling on the ABM issue and focusing his pitch on limited missile defense against "rogue" nations. He even laid out the somewhat improbable scenario of a missile-defenseless U.S. being intimidated by some Third World bully from staying out of a regional conflict for fear of being attacked. The Europeans are unlikely to swallow that argument from a nation whose current secretary of state once warned North Korea's Kim Jong Il that if he even threatened the U.S. with nuclear weapons, he'd be "turned into a charcoal briquette...
...Russia has made overtures about cutting a deal with the U.S. over the endangered abm treaty?perhaps in exchange for economic aid and bilateral warhead reductions?which would allow Bush to go forward with a clear conscience. Opponents of nmd in Europe suspect that, sooner or later, America?s missile shield dreams will become a reality. And some have started to say that Europeans should not expend too much capital trying to stop it. ?Their time would be better spent praying the technological challenges prove too difficult to overcome,? says Dominique Mo?si of the French Institute on International Relations...
Morales and Restrepo are middle-aged janitors employed by ABM, a janitorial services contractor. They often work downtown, and yesterday they were working at Suffolk University...
...strategic partnership" with Beijing and for being too friendly with a corrupt and ruthless Russian government. Gore says he would negotiate with Moscow on changes to the Antiballistic Missile Treaty to allow the U.S. to build a limited missile-defense system; Bush says he is willing to scrap the ABM treaty, rapidly develop a missile shield and make unilateral arms reductions...