91. They darkly suggest that he is in league with China and Russia to undercut support for an U.s. missile shield. 92. They say construction of a missile shield could divert resources from the more likely danger of biological and chemical attacks. 93. They would serve as an alternative to the national missile shield that the United States proposes to erect over its territory. 94. They have publicly threatened to undertake a variety of countermeasures if the Clinton administration moves ahead with plans for a missile shield. 95. Treaties that would ban a missile shield were with the Soviet Union, not with the new Russia. 96. Until a workable missile interceptor technology is developed, no effective missile shield can be built. 97. Washington could agree to fewer nuclear warheads if the Russians would permit an American missile shield. 98. We would not wait to see if our missile shield actually worked. 99. Washington should be more realistic about a missile shield. 100. When it is completed, the administration will almost certainly propose a missile defense shield much more elaborate than anything the Clinton administration contemplated. |