1.   Both could enhance their records by completing a major nuclear arms reduction treaty.

2.   Bush advisers also denied that Bush had caved in to pressure by Putin to sign an official arms reduction treaty.

3.   Bush made clear his commitment to seek deeper cuts than those provided under the last arms reduction treaty.

4.   Bush is to travel later Thursday to Moscow, where he plans to sign a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

5.   But past presidents have always worked diligently for arms control and missile reduction treaties.

6.   He helped the Carter administration enlist American companies to support Senate ratification of SALT I, the strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty.

7.   He is scheduled to sign an arms reduction treaty with President Vladimir Putin, who is also giving Bush and his wife a tour of St. Petersburg.

8.   However, the Start II nuclear arms reduction treaty has been held up in the Russian Duma, which has slowed the disarmament process down.

9.   In contrast, almost immediately after the signing of the first arms reduction treaty, Bush and Yeltsin got to work on the second one.

10.   It could complicate efforts to win ratification of the second strategic arms reduction treaty and other pending agreements, strengthen the hand of the Soviet military and weaken Yeltsin.