IP: MISSILE DEFENSE? HOUSE LEADERSHIP MAKES IT A TOP PRIORITY.

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Guess if they could not get Bill Clinton, they will try for this. djf


Bills numbered one through ten are reserved for top legislative 
priorities. As a service to our readers, therefore, WN will 
allocate space to H.R.4 in its entirety: "It is the policy of the 
United States to deploy a national missile defense." That's it. 
That should be enough to abrogate the hated ABM treaty, which is 
the real priority. Unlike the Senate version (S.269), the House 
wording doesn't get all bogged down in details like "as soon as 
is technologically possible" (WN 29 Jan 99).