You wondered if that meant a strategic arms agreement was dead.
To them, the public would see a strategic arms agreement simply as finishing up old Reagan business.
This evening, Bush was "especially proud" of prospects for an arms agreement.
But the hard right may fight the arms agreements, and Robertson's push points to other internal tensions.
They realize that could make it harder to complete the promising new arms agreements.
Disputes over such systems are major obstacles to a strategic arms agreement.
But he said Moscow would hold firm to its main positions in the negotiations for a strategic arms agreement.
Neither leader cited the possibility of an arms agreement, according to limited Soviet reports thus far available.
Defenders say the agency is still needed to press for new arms agreements and monitor existing ones.
The Soviet leader could also benefit from an arms agreement, even a small one.