Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 7, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 . Senate approves abm Winnipeg free press thursday. August 7. 1969 continued lie. That would t have been nothing but Praise fur mrs i enough because a majority realizing she had their1 would have been needed to get Fate in her hands the opponents i approval of their amendment mrs. Smith they generally1 bar deployment of the Safe shared her views and wondered guard system. Whether some accommodation but the opposition had hoped could be worked out uncommitted senators Clinton mrs Smith speaking in p. Anderson a 73-year-o d new usual soft tones Tina Mexico Democrat and John j. More than a f f both men voted with the j abm opponent came with ploy ment of the most hotly debated weapons system since the United states entered the nuclear age. Perhaps most painful to the abm opposition however was the loss 01 sen. Margaret Chase Smith who language acceptable to mrs. Smith. He proposed to modify her amendment to Stipu-1 late that it would t bar re search and development of components of any abm system location was that if the name i other than safeguard. The Imp Viivi Linn j. Lie Jill 1.1 tried earlier to have the Safe were changed and the system guard system killed altogether redesigned the k and d work after losing that attempt and could continue a subsequent modified Amend mrs Smith agreed to acc. Ment the latter on a Cliff sen Gore s proposal to the glee hanging tie vote she switched of abm opponents who pictured sides and voted against the u As very close to the Cooper amendment to bar deployment j Hart amendments. But when i she contended the amendment mrs Smith requested unania h 3t Mous sons Cut to have san Gore s language added to Hen a. 11 c ores language a o in actually mrs. Smiths switch Anle dment sen. Barry Gold 1 made no difference in the water j outcome. Had mrs. Smith not objected defected the amendment still that forced an immediate would have been Defeated by a vote on her original amendment 50-m tie vote. But psychological-1 and it wag overwhelmingly by it Hurt the abm opponents 89 n lose by two votes after Persuad-1 then it was the turn of the ing themselves they had a Good administration forces to take Chance of winning. Right with her first Amend. The leaders of the opposition coalition Sens. John Sherman Cooper and Philip a. Hart demo Michigan told a press conference after the vote that they would continue the fight. Well go after the or. Hart said in reference to the defence appropriation Bill that will come along later to finance the safeguard system. But majority Leader Mike m a n s f held Tana another abm opponent ment out of the w a mrs. Smith was Able to have a revised one incorporating sen. Gore s suggestion made the pending business. Now the safeguard proponents were faced with an amendment on which both the opponents and mrs. Smith were in agreement j should it be adopted the proponents argued it would be an even greater setback to the safeguard than the Cooper Hart amendment. As the debate frequently very seemed doubtful the opposition emotional Hundred on leaders in the. I m the opposing sides roamed i in a u the aisles checking on followers Hogh War feared might be wavering. Was today sen. Mansfield j then came the Roll Call on the 15 i i revised Smith amendment. The a similar View was expressed Senate with All 100 members in g Tower Republic t lican Texas a leading abm proponent. He predicted that rare attendance fell unusually Glenl As first one Side and then the other took Ead g with safeguard finally Safe the Tols in the jammed Gal cries Senate fend off a Host of leaned Forward in hushed other amendments to the billion military procurement authorization Bill that has been before it for the past month. Until wednesday the Senate had devoted itself almost totally suspense. Then it was All Over a 50-50 tie. Thai Defeated the Amend ment but vice president Spiro t. Agnew the Senate s presid-1 i. A the abm Ite Pentagon projects such As a for met Simith t 3? a the new Battle Lank advanced new administration forces. We prosramt0 in a typically Chi Static lift explanation rident Uliey could defeat most of the other amendments. However the administration and its Senate lieutenants did t begin to breathe easily until the final Roll Call was completed late wednesday. In a Long Day of suspense j with the galleries constantly i jammed the administration at one Point escaped a crushing defeat by Only one vote. That came on an amendment i engineered largely by mrs. Smith the Senate s Only woman member w h o paradoxically wound up later helping the administration Nail Down its Victory. In a display of feminine manoeuvring that had both abm proponents and opponents alternately near panic mrs. Amendment that would have i Smith started out with an had the effect of killing the j safeguard program outright. It would have deploy ment of the safeguard system and also further research and development work on it. The amendment did t worry administration supporters be cause it was so drastic they knew they could defeat it easily. But the amendment threw abm opponents into a fright because of a letter mrs. Smith distributed to each senator during the afternoon in support of her amendment. I have no Confidence in the safeguard abm the letter said and if one has no Confidence in it then 1 cannot Sec the logic or justification in voting for research and Devil i opine it of the opponents viewed that language As a direct attack on their amendment. Their amendment sponsored by Sens. Cooper and Hart would have prohibited safeguard deploy ment but would have permitted continued research and development on it. In mrs. Smith s letter the abm opponents read a hint that if her own amendment were Defeated she would vote against the Cooper Hart amendment. Since mrs. Smith had voted in the Senate last year against the Johnson administration s abm version and again this year against the Safe Tiara when it was in the Senate armed services committee she had been counted As a firm member of tie opposition. But Ner oblique attack on the objectives of the Cooper Mart amendment brought on sudden doubts. There were mutterings in Senate corridors that mrs. Smith had sold out to the administration. But on the Senate floor the Arm opposition leaders had ing reputations of sen. Tower and other abm defenders. They had been predicting for Days they would win by a vote of 51 49, calling it exactly on the nose nose. N. Dakota town glad Over vote continued to persons will employed on the of two pro posed for the nation. 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