Friday, Oct. 25, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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Nation/World
Weapons stripped from bill
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee stripped all money for chemical weapons out of a $292.6 billion defense spending bill yesterday, but kept intact the threat to resume building the weapons.
The 26-24 vote was taken in closed session before the defense appropriations bill was forwarded to the full House on a voice vote. The committee cut $163.5 million meant for production of a new generation of chemical weapons. This was the first
Left untouched is language that would allow the work to go ahead in 1987, if a number of conditions are met. Among them is a requirement that NATO nations agree to house the weapons. If the committee action steps the administration would have to ask again for production money.
cut since a 1969 unilateral U.S. moratorium on the weapons.
Once passed by the House, the bill must go to a conference with the Senate, which has consistently backed renewed production of the weapons in binary shells, which have
twin chemical chambers that mix upon firing.
The panel earlier rejected a move to cut spending in 1986 for Star Wars anti-missile research from $2.5 billion to $2.1 billion, because they thought the cut would weaken the president's hand in the Geneva, Switzerland, summit next month with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbalov. He also urged the administration to hold to narrow interpretation of what Star Wars work the anti-ballistic missile treaty permits.
Three times in previous years the
House has rejected administration requests for renewed chemical weapons production. But earlier this year the full House voted to permit the work in two years if several hurdles were crossed, among them the NATO requirement. That requirement on the authorization bill giving broad permission for Pentagon programs but containing no money, was dropped by a conference committee.
A leading opponent of the weapons, Rep. John Porter, R-III., told reporters that one of the most persuasive arguments was, "We don't
believe the fencing will be there (in two years). We think we've been had by the authorizing committee."
"I think a lot of people felt they'd been had," he said, adding that leaving the authority for the weapons intact would tell the Soviets that the United States would enforce the NATO requirement if there were no progress in a chemical weapons treaty.
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