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INSIDE The Bushes and the Kennedys--Bush and Putin at the Ranch--Jordanian Intelligence--Flying Lessons--Fighting Over the Sit Room--Clinton's Ad--Afghanistan's Star--Christmas Cards...
...sure to be a great photo op when Russian President Putin trots around President Bush's ranch this week. The two will stand shoulder to shoulder against terrorism and boast a series of economic and other agreements. Look closer, though, and you'll see saddle sores. Bush officials tell TIME that late last month Russia rejected a U.S.-proposed ceiling for strategic nuclear weapons, objecting that the proposed cap of about 2,000 warheads was still too high. The rebuff forced Under Secretary of State John Bolton to work through last week in Moscow to try to get the Russians...
...system--now seems possible. President George Bush was already cracking the whip on American negotiators to clinch a deal. Now, with the U.S. ready to cut warhead levels to around 2,000 from 6,000-plus, the biggest battle may not be between President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but among Bush Administration factions...
...Putin has recognized that a missile-defense system isn't a threat to Russia, U.S. officals say; he just needs a prestige-preserving agreement as weighty as the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which Bush wants to scrap. But Bush Administration hard-liners resist any formal treaty that would constrain U.S. power...
...treaty haters, headed by the Department of Defense and the Vice President's office, want to give Putin little more than a handshake. The treaty huggers, as the hawks have labeled them, are in Colin Powell's State Department and say a deal in writing can be so flexible as to bind hardly at all. The deciding vote will be Bush...