Rumsfeld offers closer military ties to former Soviet republics

Sunday, December 16, 2001

TBILISI, Georgia -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in a hopscotch tour Saturday of three former Soviet republics, offered closer U.S. military ties in return for help fighting terrorism in Afg-hanistan and elsewhere.

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