Clinton told Putin that changes would have to be made in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty before the United States could engage in the next round of nuclear arms reduction talks, known as START III, Talbott said.

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U.S. insistence that the European Community agree in the present GATT round talks on a radical reduction in trade barriers -- particularly in the agricultural sector -- that threaten to prevent Central Europe from exporting its way to prosperity.

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Republican victory in 2012 would probably forestall a second round of defense cuts mandated by the deficit-reduction law passed in August.

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