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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/07/aus...eut/index.html

|| _U.S.-Australia missile defense pact_

Excerpt:
|| "We have a responsibility to address not only the
|| threats of today, but the threats that we might face in
|| the future," Australian Defense Minister Robert Hill,
|| who signed the pact with U.S. Defense Secretary
|| Donald Rumsfeld, told reporters.

|| Australia will join South Korea, Japan, Britain, Germany,
|| Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain among
|| countries working with the United States on missile
|| defense, a U.S. official said.