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The University Daily Kansan
Monday. October 18. 1999
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U.S. seeks to alter arms treaty
White House offers to help Russia finish missile-tracking radar
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—The Clinton administration is offering to help Russia complete a large missile-tracking radar if it agrees to renegotiate an arms control agreement so the United States could build a national missile defense system, The New York Times reported yesterday.
Under the proposal, the United States would help the Russians finish their radar near Irkutsk, Silberia, the paper said, citing unidentified Russian and American officials.
A nationwide defense system is prohibited by the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.
Moscow so far has refused to alter
it and announced on Friday that it would work with China to seek broad support at the United Nations against American efforts to alter the accord.
Senior American officials insist that the Clinton administration is not aiming to nullify the 1972 pact. Rather, the goal is to update the accord so the United States can defend itself against new missile threats while avoiding a new arms race with Russia and China, the paper said.
The United States believes nations like North Korea and Iran are developing the means to manufacture ballistic missiles.
Russian officials insist that Washington has exaggerated the missile threat and say that weakening the treaty would be a reckless move.
"We are open to cooperation," Grigory V. Berdennikof, a senior arms control specialist at Russia's Foreign Ministry, told the Times. "But if our cooperation means
changing the ABM treaty, our answer is 'thanks but no thanks.'
A senior administration official told The Washington Post, "We don't see this as anything against Russia, and we're willing to look at a whole range of cooperative measures that would address the same rogue threat we're concerned about."
According to Russian and American officials familiar with the talks, the first phase of the American antimissile system is to be completed by 2005. It involves building a powerful new radar in Alaska and deploying up to 100 antimissile interceptors there. American early warning radars in Greenland and Britain and in the United States also would be upgraded.
The second phase is to be completed by 2010, and could involve construction of a similar radar at Grand Forks, N.D., and deployment of 100 interceptors there.
Hurricane Irene moves to shore, threatens storm-weary Carolinas
The Associated Press
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane Irene drenched southeastern North Carolina with nearly half a foot of rain Sunday as it churned up the coast, unleashing more flooding in a region still saturated by record floodwaters from Hurricane Flood.
A flurry of beach town evacuations preceded the storm, North Carolina's third hurricane in two months. Torrential rains in front of Irene's core swamped dozens of roads, and National Guard troops were called out to sandbag against rising flood waters.
Rachel Kesselman/KANSAN
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said there was a chance Irene and its 75 mph winds might skirt the North Carolina coast without coming ashore. "It's too close to call," meteorologist Bill Frederick said.
a tornado spawned by the hurricane touched down near Elizabeth City in northeastern North
Carolina around 7 p.m. Authorities said it had downed power lines and trees, and may have damaged some mobile homes in the area. No injuries were reported.
The greatest concern was rain, not wind, and the eastern coastal plain, inundated by Hurricane Floyd just four weeks ago, was especially vulnerable to more flooding.
Up to 5 1/2 inches had fallen in parts of eastern North Carolina, with several more inches possible, the National Weather Service said.
State public safety secretary Richard Moore said the worst flooding was expected in the Fayetteville area and along the Cape Fear River, expected to crest 20 feet above flood stage later this week.
No deaths had been reported in association with the storm in North Carolina by Sunday night.
A flash flood warning was issued for a 100-mile-by-50 mile swath of eastern North Carolina straddling Interstate 95 between Fayetteville and Rocky Mount. Gale-force winds were measured at the coast, and a tornado was reported by radar over Jacksonville on Sunday morning.
Irene initially was expected to come ashore near the South Carolina line Sunday night, but then it picked up speed and tacked to the northeast.
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