Word: safeguardâ
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...lose a vote they desperately needed, sweet-talked Mrs. Smith into putting in a new amendment: this one would also halt both research and deployment on Safeguard but allow research on other types of ABM systems. Since Mrs. Smith was clearly not going to vote any money whatsoever for Safeguard???not even the research-only funds included in the Cooper-Hart amendment?the opposition's only hope was to get all the anti-ABM forces together behind Mrs. Smith's new amendment. They did just that, but it was not enough. Even with Mrs. Smith, they had only 50 votes...
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