to finance military hardware from social programme, the Republicans split over needy constituencies back home and their vision that Armageddon faces America and the nation must fight for its life at any social cost. Undoubtedly, then, there will be some stiff negotiating, and the military appropriation could be shaved a billion or two. But if Congress baulks at further welfare cuts, the President will simply try again to cut them in the future. The Budget Director. David Stockman, has told the House Budget Committee that, as yet there has been "no final vote'', and the Administration and Congress are going "to have to go at it again and again and again", And most observers believe him.
