31.  The president met with the new team at the Kremlin on Friday, stressing that Russia needs a smaller, more affordable force that would still provide effective defense.

32.  Yeltsin said Russia needs a smaller, more affordable force that would still provide effective defense.

33.  And we must have the freedom and the flexibility to develop effective defenses against those attacks.

34.  The insanity plea has been an effective defense in several high-profile cases recently.