21.   That would violate trade treaties and could devastate U.S. trade, especially with Mexico and Canada.

22.   The first option, the lawyers concluded, was that contractors could pour a concrete pad without violating the treaty.

23.   The Japanese government said the actions violated treaties between the nations.

24.   The president has promised a decision this summer on whether he will proceed to build a anti-missile defense system, which would violate the treaty unless it is amended.

25.   The Pentagon had planned a similar test last fall but postponed it when lawyers concluded that using ship-based radar violated the treaty.

26.   The system would cost billions of dollars and would violate a treaty on anti-ballistic missiles between Washington and Moscow.

27.   The US, in turn, charges that Canada is simply coddling its magazine industry with protectionist measures that violate free trade treaties.

28.   They also assert that any work on such test sites would violate the treaty if the sites are intended to become part of a working missile defense system.

29.   This has led Russian politicians of all stripes to suspect the United States of building support for missile defense in its allegations that Moscow is violating proliferation treaties.

30.   Those voting to kill the amendment argued that the bill would not violate the treaty.