Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, an Act Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1977, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 |
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... essential for the United States to keep open sea lines of communication to both regions , as well as to other continents and areas . A war in Europe might well become worldwide in character , but even if it were to remain contained , we ...
... essential for the United States to keep open sea lines of communication to both regions , as well as to other continents and areas . A war in Europe might well become worldwide in character , but even if it were to remain contained , we ...
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... essential to correct the divergent U.S./USSR trends and provided real growth needed to : Strengthen the U.S. technology base to create options for future development ; Demonstrate selected alternatives chosen from among new options ...
... essential to correct the divergent U.S./USSR trends and provided real growth needed to : Strengthen the U.S. technology base to create options for future development ; Demonstrate selected alternatives chosen from among new options ...
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... essential that we continue our current efforts to improve the defensive strength that protects Western Europe . Through further support of programs to achieve greater standardization and rationalization of defense efforts within NATO ...
... essential that we continue our current efforts to improve the defensive strength that protects Western Europe . Through further support of programs to achieve greater standardization and rationalization of defense efforts within NATO ...
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... essential links to our allies . The United States , together with its allies , therefore must maintain maritime forces that are capable of ensuring unhampered use of the seas . We must be able to resist the naval and maritime forces of ...
... essential links to our allies . The United States , together with its allies , therefore must maintain maritime forces that are capable of ensuring unhampered use of the seas . We must be able to resist the naval and maritime forces of ...
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... essential parts of the strategic Triad . The second difficulty is more profound . Soviet ICBM force that is now underway will of the Minuteman ICBMs . We would prefer to ICBM forces by mutual agreement . The modernization of the ...
... essential parts of the strategic Triad . The second difficulty is more profound . Soviet ICBM force that is now underway will of the Minuteman ICBMs . We would prefer to ICBM forces by mutual agreement . The modernization of the ...
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Page 426 - DONE at Washington, this 7th day of September, 1977, in duplicate, in the English and Spanish languages, both texts being equally authentic. For the...
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