A17 The attacks strengthen, not weaken, prospects of Congressional support for Mr. Bush's anti-missile plan.
He said Russia believed that the anti-missile plan "will undermine strategic stability, threaten Russia's strategic deterrent and provoke a new arms race."
The Pentagon is now spending about $4 billion a year on the anti-missile plan, and has projected a threefold increase, a spending proposal certain to be rejected by Congress.
After the Persian Gulf war last year, Congress seized on the Patriot missile's role in intercepting Iraqi missiles to recast the Administration's anti-missile plan.
Angry opponents said that the Bingaman-Shelby amendment amounted to Congressional interference in management and that it would ruin the most promising technology in the anti-missile plan.
He would shift money away from the full-scale, space-based "Star Wars" program and focus on a more limited, ground-based anti-missile plan.
Representative Dellums said the most disturbing part of the anti-missile plan was the need to change the treaty.
It's easy to overstate the new athletics as a force for social change, but don't count on surfers opposing the president's ludicrous, Reagan-revival anti-missile plan.
As for the anti-missile plan, the conference committee agreed to allow $4.1 billion, as against the current $3.9 billion in the current budget, the sources said.
A flurry of proposals from both liberals and conservatives on the anti-missile plan and the treaty illustrates the proliferation of amendments this year.