31.   Unlike the Reagan or Bush administrations, the Clinton administration has yet to negotiate a landmark accord on strategic arms and it is eager to do so.

32.   Vershbow had been instrumental in the negotiations of the strategic arms limitation and strategic arms reductions treaties with the former Soviet Union.

33.   An outgrowth of the first strategic arms limitations talks, the treaty is considered a cornerstone arms control agreement.

34.   And Clinton and Putin also will discuss the broader question of strategic nuclear arms reduction.

35.   Authorities already have dumped dozens of tons of Soviet-era ruble bills in the old silos, dismantled under strategic arms reduction agreements.

36.   Both towns are in a strategic arms and drug trafficking corridor that has been a major battleground in the conflict.

37.   He also urged Russia to ratify START II, the second strategic arms reduction treaty with the United States.

38.   Interfax said they discussed European security matters, strategic arms and economic cooperation.

39.   It is the first time that an entire picture of Russian strategic nuclear arms deployment has been revealed.

40.   Mrs. Hjelm-Wallen and representatives of other governments welcomed U.S. Senate ratification of the strategic arms reduction treaty START II and urged Russia to follow suit quickly.