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DeLeon was on crutches from surgery only a week before and tried to shield himself from the masses that were escaping down city streets...
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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...
...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...
...public humiliation over North Korea is part of Washington lore. He said the Bush Administration would "pick up where the Clinton Administration left off" in negotiating a missile-proliferation deal with the North. The White House, annoyed that South Korea had just sided with Russia against Bush's missile shield and furious that Powell had uttered the word Clinton, said, No way. The next day Powell had to step out and retract his position. He took the setback stoically, at least in public. When the dust settled, he told reporters, "I got a little far forward on my skis...