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Summit Arms Control NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Washington that proposals for a U.S. missile defense system will hang over the summit President Clinton begins tomorrow in Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Clinton administration had hoped to persuade the Russians to accept modifications to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, to accommodate a new missile defense system. However, Putin and other Russian officials have rejected this, proposing some new ideas of their own, instead.

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NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Washington that proposals for a U.S. missile defense system will hang over the summit President Clinton begins tomorrow in Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Clinton administration had hoped to persuade the Russians to accept modifications to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, to accommodate a new missile defense system. However, Putin and other Russian officials have rejected this, proposing some new ideas of their own, instead.