1.   ...a landmark arms control treaty.

2.   And they cited a warning from Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that such a system would threaten existing arms control treaties.

3.   As president, I will link Russian adherence to existing arms control treaties to the provision of U.S. assistance.

4.   At the same time, the administration is pushing forward on a series of traditional arms control treaties with Russia.

5.   At the same time, President Clinton has been silent about Russian violations of arms control treaties such as START I and the Biological Weapons Convention.

6.   A system based on the Putin approach would also have the advantage of being already acceptable to Moscow and hence easily accommodated within arms control treaties.

7.   A senior presidential aide said the Senate would never approve an arms control treaty that did not have the unequivocal support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

8.   After a two-year delay, the Senate is now racing toward a vote next week on ratifying a critically important arms control treaty.

9.   But for decades such detectors have also been used for monitoring arms control treaties and nuclear blasts, whose characteristic signatures in most cases are easy to distinguish.

10.   Clinton and Yeltsin also tried to jump-start a stalled arms control treaty and pledged to push for further weapons cuts.