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A2 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2001 NATIONWORLD MATTOON (ILL) JOURNAL GAZETTE U.S.-Russian talks at Pentagon focus on missile defense, nuclear weapon reductions plans to leave for Moscow on Wednesday for more meetings States and the Soviet Union," he said in previewing the talks. "It is baggage that exists in people's minds, it exists in treaties, it exists in the structure of relationships, the degree of formality of them," he added. "And it will require, I think, some time to work through these things and see if we can't set the relationship on a different basis." In a radio interview Monday, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, spoke more optimistically about the chances of persuading the Russians to permit missile defenses and also cut nuclear forces. "I think the Russians are very interested in that package of going to lower levels of offensive nuclear forces, and I think they will understand that our limited missile defense capability is no obstacle to doing that," he told KMOX radio in St. Louis.

Defense secret ary By The Associated Press WASHINGTON U.S. officials opened talks at the Pentagon with their Russian counterparts making President Bush's case that his missile defense plan won't be an obstacle to cuts in jiuclear forces. The closed-door talks, scheduled to end Wednesday, are intended to lay the groundwork for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's meetings in Moscow next week with Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. The Pentagon announced that Rumsfeld, accompanied by Gen.

Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will leave Saturday for his first trip to Moscow since becoming defense secretary. 'There is an awful lot of baggage left over in the Cold War relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union." Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. defense secretary In remarks to reporters last Friday, Rumsfeld indicated he expected no breakthrough in this week's talks, which he described as "an exchange of information more than an exchange of views." Rumsfeld said there are psychological barriers to creating a new security relationship with Russia. "There is an awful lot of baggage left over in the relationship, the old relationship, the Cold War relationship between the United two countries," Quigley said.

The Bush administration is committed to developing and deploying a nationwide defense against long-range missiles but has yet to persuade Moscow to scrap or amend the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty that prohibits such defenses. The Russians' position has been that breaching the ABM treaty would unravel the entire fabric of arms control, including treaties reducing offensive nuclear forces. At their summit meeting in Italy last month, Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to discuss the ABM treaty and missile defense issues in the context of additional cuts in nuclear forces. This week's talks at the Pentagon are intended to provide the Russians with additional details on the U.S. approach, 'If "VX EAGLES Lodge3100Charleston 375 N.

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Rumsfeld said last week, however, that the administration was not yet prepared to tell the Russians exactly how deep it would be willing to reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The Pentagon is in the midst of a comprehensive review of nuclear force levels and strategy. Leading the Russian delegation at the Pentagon was Col. Gen.

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Banzer was honored Tuesday by Bolivia's armed forces in Santa Cruz, where the retired general, who said the soldiers were like "family" to him, gave one more speech as president. Though Banzer resigned Monday, he remains president until Congress accepts his resignation. While Banzer returns to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to focus on battling his cancer, Quiroga must face a nation where six out of 10 people live in poverty, unemployment is nearing 10 percent and citizens have little faith in politicians. Creating an emergency plan to stimulate the economy will be one of Quiroga's first steps after forming a new Cabinet. To earn the confidence of his countrymen, analysts say Quiroga must generate jobs and find ways to deal with Happy Big'Five'O Debbie Holt s.

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