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...congressional Democrats continue to view the ABM Treaty as a cornerstone of nuclear stability in the modern world. Before the tragedies of Sept. 11, Bush had declared that the U.S. wanted a complete overhaul of the treaty. He stressed that he would unilaterally pull out of the agreement if Russian President Vladimir Putin did not compromise. Upon witnessing the carnage in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, it became clear that there is no longer any time for revising or amending ABM. We need to withdraw promptly...
...likely the Russian leader will get full satisfaction on Chechnya: the Bush administration and other Western governments may look the other way, but public bodies such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are unlikely to be bound by their governments' commitments...
...Meanwhile, Russian sources also confirmed to TIME that U.S. military planes have already landed in Uzbekistan just north of the Afghan border. Ukraine and Kazakhstan said Monday that their air space would be open to the U.S. air force...
...encouraged by stepped-up Russian assistance, the Northern Alliance has launched a serious offensive against the Taliban. The Alliance troops have advanced some 30 miles, and are now fighting at the outskirts of the key Taliban-held town of Mazari-aI-Sharif. However, under pressure from Russia - and following Sunday's secret talks in Dushanbe between Russian Chief of the General Staff Anatoli Kvashnin and the new Northern Alliance commander Mohamed Fakhim-Khan, who has replaced the slain Ahmad Shah Masood - the Northern Alliance has changed its previous stand on the U.S. military presence...
Major-General Alexander Lyakhovski, 55, currently with the Russian Defense Ministry, served in Afghanistan from 1987 to 1989 as a senior aid to General Valentin Varennikov, the top Soviet military coordinator there. Author of three books on the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Lyakhovski talked with TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich about the pitfalls of warfare in that country...