The last criteria was key, because President Clinton agreed with senior State Department officials and arms control advocates that the ABM Treaty was a cornerstone of arms control.
Identifying their individual sensitivities and preventing exposure to those substances is a cornerstone of asthma control.
Ms. Rice and Mr. Bush have both staked out a position suggesting that they are prepared to scrap the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a cornerstone of arms control, even if Moscow does not acquiesce.
That treaty, which its advocates regard as the cornerstone of arms control, forbids a missile-defense system that protects an entire nation.
A key question about national missile defense is whether the threat from nations like North Korea justifies deployment and amending the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, an accord widely seen as a cornerstone of arms control.
Interviews with several other administration officials indicated that they were now working on an assumption that Russia may agree to permit the tests -- and that Mr. Bush, in turn, will postpone any decision on abandoning the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which Russia views as a cornerstone of arms control.
Even before Tuesday's setback, a growing number of members of Congress, from both parties, had joined with European allies in asking why a decision had to be made this summer on a weapons system that could undermine the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which is viewed by its advocates as a cornerstone of arms control.
Moreover, as he told Mr. Cochran and other senators on Wednesday, abandoning the treaty would lead other nuclear powers who relied on it as the cornerstone of arms control to re-examine their allegiance to a whole series of other pacts, including nuclear nonproliferation and bans on poison gas and germ warfare.
Surveillance must stay the cornerstone of infection control program.
