71.   But that, too, will be lost, the Russians believe, if the United States goes ahead with a national missile defense system.

72.   But the Rumsfeld commission remained neutral on the question of supporting deployment of a missile defense system.

73.   By rendering offensive weapons ineffective, an anti-missile defense system could offer incentive to further cuts in ICBMs, supporters say.

74.   By mapping military radar sites, for instance, such planes can track advances or expansion in a radar defense system.

75.   Certainly not on a missile defense system that is impractical, wildly expensive and designed to defeat a threat greatly diminished by the demise of the Soviet military.

76.   China, which was not a signatory to the pact, repeated its oppositon to the missile defense system proposed by the Bush administration.

77.   Cirincione laments the waste of time, money, and concentration on dubious threats and even more dubious defense systems.

78.   Clinton favors more research on a missile defense system but wants to defer a decision on full development and deployment for at least three years.

79.   Clinton has said he will decide this summer whether to go ahead with the missile defense system.

80.   Clinton preferred to continue research on a ballistic-missile defense system for the United States.