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Congress Challenges Pentagon Over Safeguard Fight
Congress challenges Pentagon policies as debate over President Nixon's Safeguard antiballistic missile plan surfaces. Lawmakers push defense spending scrutiny to fund civilian programs amid Vietnam-related budget pressures and a shifting security-priorities landscape.
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Carl Leubsdorf
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Nixon
Pentagon
Safeguard
Congress
Vietnam
House
Gerald R. Ford
Joint Economic Committee
House of Representatives
Senate
Melvin R. Laird
Georgia
Laird
Russell
Johnson
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Mike Mansfield
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
Philip A. Hart
Michigan
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Department of Defense