By ROBERT BURNS and FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press
July 2, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon said Tuesday that Lithuania would be a "good alternative" to Poland as the site for a U.S. missile defense base if negotiations with the Poles fail.
In talks at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas that the Bush administration's preference is to work out a deal with fellow NATO ally Poland, according to Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell. The negotiations over a base that would host 10 U.S. missile interceptors have bogged down in a dispute over the extent of U.S. assistance to the Polish military.
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