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...forced onto the defensive Monday at a U.N. conference on nonproliferation, with even U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan supporting Moscow's reasoning and warning that U.S. efforts to build a missile defense system could jeopardize the ABM treaty and restart the nuclear arms race. Although Russian president Vladimir Putin got his legislature to ratify the START II agreement slashing U.S. and Russian missile fleets, he made it conditional on Washington's adhering to the ABM pact. But unless that treaty is renegotiated - which the Russians right now show no interest in doing - it precludes the U.S. from building the politically...
...PUTIN'S ASCENT...
...only American to work inside the St. Petersburg administration with Vladimir V. Putin (from 1992 to 1996), I commend TIME for the accuracy and completeness of its report on Putin and his election as President of Russia [WORLD, April 3]. He is an extraordinary man. I was assigned to his international-relations committee and found him to be charming (yes), drolly humorous, enormously capable and totally appreciative of Western democratic values. I predict that he will sometimes exasperate and disappoint us, often disagree with us, but more often please us with his bold and clever actions to strengthen Russia...
...often listen to what Putin says with frankness on the radio and watch him on TV. I'm greatly impressed by his personality. Our people need a wise and powerful leader such as he. Putin is just the man to rule Russia. IGOR MIKHAILUSENKO Moscow
Russian President-elect VLADIMIR PUTIN wants no part of a missile shield, and has told Washington that Moscow won't begin abiding by the START II treaty until the Senate approves those side agreements. "The Administration now finds itself caught between a Russian rock and the right wing," says Joseph Cirincione, director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project. Clinton may face the embarrassing spectacle of the Senate's sinking an arms-control treaty it has already ratified...