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(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, July 21.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has given its unanimous approval to the two arms limitations agreements signed by the United States and the Soviet Union during President Nixon’s Moscow summit in May.
The measures, a treaty limiting anti-ballistic missile systems and an executive agreement curtailing offensive weapons, now go to the Senate for ratification.
The committee, led by Senator William Fulbright (Dem., Arkansas), stripped from the agreement resolution language proposed by Republicans praising. President Nixon, and passed a simple statement giving Mt Nixon authorisation to approve the measure on behalf of the United States.
It also removed language approving the executive agreement and replaced it with words merely authorising the President to accept the agreement. This was apparently a move by the liberal committee to place the full responsibility for the arms agreement on Mr Nixon. The committee cut out a call for continued modernisation of United States defences and phrases saying that the success of the Moscow pact was the result of a strong American military position.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32975, 22 July 1972, Page 15
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