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Hopeful, cautious about Soviets
Rep. Slaughter has always been a strong supporter of defense expenditures, but he vojced cautious optimism that the recent intermediate range nuclear missile treaty signed by President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev will "lead to a
(See SLAUGHTER, p. 10)
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