Thurmond wants a $270 billion defense budget and priority for BMD

Senate Armed Services Chairman Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) last week renewed his call for a $270 billion fiscal 1996 defense budget and said "a top priority" will be "to energize the ballistic missile defense effort." Thurmond made the appeal Thursday in a Senate floor speech which played on President...

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