11.   Agreement on cutting warheads might win Russian assent to modify the ABM treaty to permit development of a limited missile shield.

12.   All military programs suffer setbacks from time to time, and the test failure Saturday does not mean that a missile shield can never be constructed.

13.   Bush also was asked whether he still intends to unilaterally toss out the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty so the United States can develop a missile shield.

14.   Bush and his aides must be mindful that their desire to erect a costly missile shield could undermine their other defense initiatives.

15.   Bush contends that an adequate missile defense shield would protect America and its allies from nuclear attacks by such rogue states as North Korea, Iraq and Iran.

16.   Bush has called on Rumsfeld, though, not to dismantle a missile defense shield, but to try to build one, this time on a national level.

17.   Bush reiterated his criticism of the ABM treaty, which bans development of a missile shield, saying the United States should not be shackled to outmoded agreements.

18.   Bush should first decide what kind of missile shield he wants to build before ordering construction of the appropriate tracking radar.

19.   Bush hopes to reach an understanding with Putin on ways to move forward with developing a missile defense shield.

20.   Britain has sympathy for and interest in the U.S. desire for a missile shield.