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The Nation - News from Sept. 5, 1985

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A group of House Democrats has started a bid to force revision of the $302.5-billion defense authorization bill already accepted by the Senate. About 25 members, most of them liberal Democrats, have signed a letter complaining that House negotiators gave away the best of the original House bill in talks with the Senate on a compromise bill. Their letter asks that the bill be returned to the conference committee for revision.

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