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The Nation - News from June 28, 1987

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Congressional negotiators agreed on a $9.38-billion supplemental spending bill after House proponents of two arms control amendments withdrew the measures. The amendments would bar all but the smallest underground nuclear tests and force President Reagan to adhere to warhead launcher limits of the unratified SALT II treaty, but the Senate rejected those proposals. House leaders said Friday they would drop their measures and were assured that the Senate would vote on the issue this year.

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