51.   It may be for an outer-space missile shield more theoretical than the man-caused greenhouse effect no conservative dare acknowledge.

52.   Its members drive by the White House, shout some putdown of President Clinton, demand more money for a missile shield and drive on.

53.   Lazio devoted most of his speech to talking, not about Clinton, but about the need for an missile defense shield.

54.   Levin, who has criticized the missile defense shield, said Friday on CNN that Bush would be forced to rethink his approach.

55.   Liberals who supported arms control criticized them as too focused on potential threats and not on the diplomatic and financial obstacles to building a missile shield.

56.   Many of the European allies are opposed to the so-called missile shield, saying it violates an arms control treaty with the Russians.

57.   Now President Bush has called for scrapping more warheads, even unilaterally, largely to calm Russian nerves jangled by his dreams of a missile shield.

58.   One might think that fact would be a better deterrent than a faulty missile shield.

59.   Other prominent examples include the decision to build a missile defense shield and denouncing the Kyoto global warming protocol.

60.   Our missile shield, more science fiction than science, has become a metaphor for our passive, defensive, retro crouch.