Democrats charge this would be a violation of the anti-ballistic missile treatybetweenthe U.S. and Russia, which prevents either country from going forward with any national missile defense system.
The Camp David accords and the 1979 peace treaty cemented a rapprochement betweenthe U.S. and Egypt that began in the mid-1970s as the country moved out of the Soviet orbit.
The U.S. embrace in the fall of 1989 of a Soviet ploy by which it purported to retract an earlier linkage between a START treaty and the negotiation of additional limits on the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative.