21.   The satellites were originally put up to safeguard America against Russian missile launchings.

22.   We have every defense against a Russian missile launch, but we have no defense against nuclear shoplifting with a brown paper bag.

23.   What Yeltsin did was to unilaterally end those negotiations by announcing he would be turning Russian missiles away from French and British targets.

24.   A group of Russian missile defense experts is heading to the United States on Saturday for joint exercises with their American counterparts.

25.   A Russian missile inspection team will be at Ellsworth Air Force Base within the next month to check U.S. compliance with a nuclear missile pact.

26.   A threat to target Russian missiles at NATO countries was later denied.

27.   According to the report, the U.S. offer envisages that the Russian missiles could be integrated into a shared defensive shield over Russia and Europe.

28.   American inspectors have begun touring Russian nuclear missile sites under terms of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

29.   An Argentine colonel will head the U.N. peacekeeping force in Cyprus, where tensions are on the rise after a Greek Cypriot decision to purchase Russian anti-aircraft missiles.

30.   Another Russian sailor died of burns at a Russian naval hospital on Thursday, the fifth victim of an accident aboard a new Russian nuclear missile cruiser.