41.   His goal is to transform the military into a more agile, lethal and stealthy force, and to build a costly and unproven missile shield.

42.   In a speech Tuesday at the Citadel in South Carolina, Bush defended his campaign for a missile defense shield.

43.   In addition, Bush said he supported a national missile defense shield against intercontinental missile attack.

44.   In a similar vein, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany said there were important questions about the technical feasibility of the proposed missile defense shield.

45.   In an era when blind rage can become a weapon of mass destruction, this is as important as any missile shield.

46.   In the debate over both the missile shield and the rapid reaction force, Blair finds himself caught in the middle.

47.   In the end, Clinton decided his presidency had too little time left for such a momentous step as the construction of a missile shield.

48.   In the past, he has talked about deploying a missile shield in consultation with NATO allies.

49.   In the United States, modernizing means creating a missile shield that many Europeans believe needlessly antagonizes the Russians while leaving European capitals vulnerable to attack.

50.   In turn, Bush left the impression that the United States would not act unilaterally to build a missile shield.