They are also pressing their political superiors to keep certain missiles and missile silos.

"To keep missiles, and you didn't ask what they were for?"

After all, his country is asking Washington for billions in economic assistance, but his military wants to keep its most advanced nuclear missiles.

"Keep those bombs, bullets and missiles coming," it said.

American officials now say that the United Nations restrictions that allowed Iraq to keep missiles with ranges of up to 150 kilometers had an unintended effect.

Russia also wants to revise the June agreement to keep all of its SS-19 multiple-warhead missiles by removing five of the six warheads.

"As long as the I.F. keeps missiles from flying," said Suriyawong.

The treaty, for example, prohibits each side from keeping launchers and missiles at the same site.

Keep missiles at either T machine and blow to bits whatever strange may show itself.

But he wants to keep mobile missiles and low limits on submarine-launched missiles -positions that Washington rejects.