U.S. officials are scheduled to depart for Geneva next week to resume negotiations on a follow-on pact to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The original START Treaty expired on Dec. 5. Russian and U.S. officials broke off negotiations late last month for the Christmas holidays. Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of state for verification and compliance, left earlier this month for Moscow, and the rest of the U.S. negotiating team will head for Geneva on Feb. 1. While the United States...
