Senate panel backs Carter arms cash
NZPA-Reuter Washington!) ( The United States Senate !f Armed Services Committee has approved more than it S3BOCM in arms spending, If giving President Carter il almost everything hell wanted. |‘ But the committee im- 1 posed one spending condi-it tion on a missile vital to the 11 new Strategic Arms Limita-|j tion Treaty (S.A.L.T. II) with: the. Soviet Union. 1 In its recommendation toh I the full Senate on spending!l in the 1980 financial year,
the committee reduced Presi-i dent Carter’s request by just S37M. It supported the Adminis- i itration’s plan to spend I 15643 M on the new MX mo-1 I bile inter-continental missile,! Ibut said none of the money! (could be spent unless the! (Pentagon informed the com(mittee by October 1 how the | missile would be transported. I For the last two years, the (Pentagon has been trying to choose, a transport, system |for the MX that would satisfy the armed forces
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