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bers of Congress occupied with the wort of their own committee According to the Appropriations Committee, therefore, the bill is assignments, must rely heavily on the reports of the Appropriations group.
dn this period of tightened tensions, the average citizen, reading of sharp differences of opinion among military ‘‘experts” as to the most effective techniques of defense, can do little more than hope that the best choices of weapon types and numbers are being made —and pray that there will be no nerd to use them.
The Defease Department appropriation bill is before the Senate now, and, as much of the committee coisideration of this bill necessarily must be behind dosed doors for security reasons, the thinking underlying the final figures may be revealed only in broad outline.
As passed by the House, the lump sum for defense spending, exclusive of defense construction and defense assistance under the foreign aid program, totaled about $2.9 million more than the President recommended in January. Illustrative of the fast changing de
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