Word: abm
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Spong and Cook felt strong pressures from home to vote for Carswell. For Vermont Republican Winston Prouty, it was the other way round. He is generally an Administration loyalist; he stuck with Nixon on the ABM issue when most Northeasterners did not, and he supported the Haynsworth nomination. But the Senator faces a difficult reelection campaign against former Governor Philip Hoff, a liberal Democrat who had zeroed in on the incumbent as a Nixon rubber stamp. Moreover, the mail from Prouty's Yankee constituency ran heavily against Carswell, and the state bar association plumped for a no vote...
...lacked advice. Last week, for example, by an overwhelming vote of 72 to 6, the Senate passed a resolution calling on the Administration to propose "an immediate mutual moratorium" of indeterminate duration on the further deployment of all strategic nuclear weapons. The moratorium would include anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs) and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as well as MIRVs. Former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy urged the President to go even farther by ordering a unilateral stand-down in MIRV and ABM deployments for a limited period of time. Perhaps most significant of all, a 14-member committee of senior statesmen...
...evidence of a segregationist past are considered insufficient reason to reverse the Senate tradition that a President is entitled to choose whom he wishes (see LAW). "How far can you go in not supporting the Administration?" inquired Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield. "How many times can you vote against the ABM and Haynsworth and still be in the ball game?" Though opposition to Carswell has grown in the Senate, Republican leaders and Southern Democrats still count 55 solid yes votes-a figure that no one on the other side is prone to dispute...
...build the first two missile installations and go ahead with research and development work on the intricate combination of Sprint and Spartan missiles, electronic detection systems and radar guidance apparatus that make up the Safeguard package. What Laird asked for last week was extra money for a third ABM site at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., further investment in technical refinements, extra missiles at the two bases already approved, and acquisition of land for five more sites strung out across the U.S. Laird wants Congress to authorize $1.5 billion on top of the $759 million he got for Safeguard last...
...Administration is also relying increasingly on the argument that the U.S. must have ABM as what Laird called "a most important bargaining tool" in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviets when the sessions resume in Vienna next month. The U.S. SALT delegation came back from the opening round in Helsinki convinced that little obsesses the Soviets more than what the U.S. is up to in the ABM department. Hence the strategists' firm conclusion that the U.S. needs an ongoing program to induce the Russians to bargain seriously...