Word: deployment
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...Missile defense remains politically popular in the U.S. - so much so that the administration favors the limited version designed to deploy some 250 interceptor missiles against "rogue states," while the Bush campaign favors a massive missile shield that protects the U.S. and its allies from all missile threats. This despite the fact that skeptics have questioned everything from the system's cost and viability to its potential to destabilize the existing arms control regime. Some of Washington's key European allies used President Clinton's valedictory tour this week to echo Russia's warning that building a missile-defense system...
...will the U.N. do its job if it can't protect its own soldiers? Its peacekeepers entered Sierra Leone determined not to repeat embarrassing failures in Somalia, Rwanda and Angola. Even before last week's crisis, it announced plans to deploy an extra 5,000 troops, which would make the U.N. mission in Sierra Leone, or UNAMSIL, the largest peacekeeping force in the world. Yet last week Holbrooke acknowledged that Sierra Leone cast a "potential shadow" on all U.N. operations as he and a Security Council delegation met with Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila in Kinshasa to sign...
...Beverly Hillbillies' patriarch 2. Forum greeting 3. Itinerary word 4. He warned that pressure to deploy missile defenses could lead to a new arms race 5. Org. that will create a Kosovo war-crimes court 6. Soccer's Hamm 7. Cockpit abbr. 8. Alchemy has called off its deal to buy this from BMW 9. Sub __ 10. Jai __ 11. Rebel __ 19. Gov't.-property overseer 21. Lake formed by Hoover Dam 22. Former name of Tokyo 23. Garment slit 24. Indonesian province that's the site of a trial of soldiers accused of massacre 25. MacLeod of The Love Boat...
...this point Putin wants no part of any tinkering with the ABM treaty, fearing that it would open the door to a larger U.S. shield than Clinton says he wants to deploy, which Moscow cannot afford to match and which would threaten its nuclear deterrence. He has warned Clinton that Russia will abandon all arms-control treaties if the U.S. builds a national missile defense...
President Clinton should delay a decision to deploy missile defense and seize the opportunity to achieve deeper arms reductions with Russia...