With Grand Ceremony, China, Russia Make Up

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China and Russia proclaimed an end Saturday to any lingering hostility between the two longtime Communist giants, pledging they would no longer target nuclear missiles or use force against each other.

The pomp-filled signing ceremony at the Kremlin - a far cry from the bristling animosity between the two nations during much of the Cold War - came as the last Russian troops in the West returned home from Germany.

Marching bands escorted several thousand green-uniformed soldiers down Tverskaya Street, the city's most prominent boulevard, where victorious Soviet troops marched after coming home from World War II.

The simultaneous events marked a symbolic …