Article: Nations Agree To Accelerate Arsenal Cuts; Hard Issues Unsettled In U.S.-Russia Talks

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 ...

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