Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After climbing skyward, the rocket spread a dark, mile-wide cloud far above the lower atmosphere. It was a cloud that cast a shadow as far away as Washington. Last week U.S. intelligence sources reported that the test, conducted in September, involved a remarkable new anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system that could represent a major breakthrough...
...Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system might have been developed years ago "except that something got into Secretary McNamara." That something, he said, was that CFIA associates had made contact with several key people working under...
...most significant continuing test of will between President and Congress involves the development and deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system. The chief opportunity for the President's opponents last week was the Administration's request for ABM expansion to two additional sites. The Senate de bate turned on neither the cost nor the efficiency of the system, but on how important the ABM is to the success of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Vienna...
...Hampshire Democrat Thomas J. McIntyre reported a telephone con- versation with a "highly placed source in Vienna [who] made it very clear to me that the success of the SALT negotiations rests almost exclusively on our not remaining static in our ABM pos ture." Just before the vote, Republican Whip Robert Griffin bore down hard er on the issue: "If this amendment should carry and if the SALT talks should thereafter collapse, I would not want to be in the position of those who will vote today against the President...
Even habitually anti-Pentagon Senators found it difficult to vote against the "bargaining chip" theory if it might one day yield a limitation of the arms race. So the Cooper-Hart anti-ABM amendment was defeated 52-47, and over the weekend opponents marshaled for a vote this week on an amendment offered by Senator Edward Brooke that would spend the full request but limit site expansion...