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Article: Nations Agree To Accelerate Arsenal Cuts; Hard Issues Unsettled In U.S.-Russia Talks
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- The Washington Post
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- September 29, 1994
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The security agreements announced yesterday by President
Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin will accelerate the
shrinkage of both nations' nuclear arsenals and promise a
Moscow-Washington partnership in upcoming arms negotiations, but
they leave difficult issues unresolved.
In the aggregate, administration officials and independent
analysts said, Russia and the United States are now in a position
where they have agreed to reduce their arsenals further, have
committed themselves to share information that used to be among the
world's deepest secrets and have said they will work together to
prevent freebooting - the theft and diversion of nuclear materials -
in the rest of the ...