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Laird Wins Round in Defense Budget Fight
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird gained a first round victory by trimming about 1.1 billion dollars from the next fiscal year's defense budget. Critics in Congress push for deeper cuts while targeting programs such as MOL AMSA AWACS FDL and AWS as possible areas for reductions.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Pentagon
Capitol Hill
United States
North America
Soviet Union
Navy
MOL
AMSA
FDL
ASW
Sen
John Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Armed Services Committee
House
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Senate
Congress
House Armed Services Committee
Nixon
Robert C. Moot
Department
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Laos
Creighton Abrams
U.S
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Armed Services Committee
Rivers
Charleston
S.C