The World - News from Nov. 19, 1987
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The House passed a bipartisan compromise that authorizes $296 billion in defense spending for 1988 while imposing some arms control restrictions on the White House. The measure, passed on a 264-158 vote, now goes to the Senate. The measure contains $3.9 billion for work on the Strategic Defense Initiative, and it holds the Administration to the list of “Star Wars” experiments that it submitted earlier in the year. None of those experiments takes the program into the broad interpretation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty the Administration supports.
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