AMERICAN DEFENCE
Pressure On Congress (N.Z.P.A.-Keuter —Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 14. The Nixon Administration has Increased its pressure on the Congress "to proceed with the scheduled deployment of the anti-ballistic-missile system or risk endangering national security.” The Deputy Defence Secretary (Mr David Packard argued before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday that any delay in deployment this year would postpone the initial operational phase of the system by two years. The phasing of the programme, begining with only two A.B.M. sites, he said would give President Nixon flexibility to curtail further deployment in the event of successful United States-Sov-iet arms-control talks, or a reduced Soviet or Chinese military threat. Congressional critics of the controversial A.B.M. system have accused the Administration of giving priority to the development of a new weapons system rather than to the arms-control negotiations. While easy approval is expected in the House of Representatives, most observers predict that the A.B.M. vote in the Senate will be close, and that the new Administration may suffer a major defeat on the issue.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31989, 16 May 1969, Page 7
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