For example, in the face of Soviet demands, Secretary of State James Baker last September abandoned the Reagan position that the START treaty should ban mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, even though the effect of doing so will be enormously to complicate the verifiability of that agreement.

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Should the Bush Administration now enter into a START agreement without taking steps to insure against Soviet cheating on its terms, to correct the adverse effects of the ABM Treaty on the strategic balance and to protect against the prospect of growing third-country ballistic missile threats, the cumulative effect could be to seriously undermine U.S. security.

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