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But I do believe that the day that we abandonfree collective, honest free
collective bargaining, it is going to be a sad day for the United States.
So it looks to me that unless they get together on a kind of settlement
that is equitable to each other and absolutely in the public interest, we
are going to lose -- something.
Q. Brandt, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Will the foreign military assistance
appropriation be included in the budget, in the defense budget, and if so,
has that been discussed with the Congressional appropriation leaders?
THE PRESIDENT: The military section I think is -- I think there has
been an agreementto do it, for them to defend it next year, I think.
I have forgotten the details, Mr. Brandt, but I know it has been under
stuc- and 1 think after the following year, it's to go into the military
responsibility, but I can’t be sure, but it is ---
Q.
(Brandt)
That would be in '62, sir.
THE PRESIDENT:
Q.
That would be '62 for the defense of this thing.
(Brandt) Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Now, I would have to have looked up what our final
agreement on that was because it has been one of these questions that's
been bandied back and forth for years, so I would think that you could
get that directly either from -- from ICA or Defense.
Q.
Voss, Washington Star.
Mr. President, I have a question about
nuciear tests,
I wonder if you could tell us how you think the negotiations are going
in Geneva, in the light of the information last Saturday from Radio
Moscow that the Russians have been creating artificial earthquakes
under a lake in Siberia, and under a river there, which they picked up
250 miles away with seismic instruments?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, of course, we've got the scientists working in
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this particular incident or particular report.
' We do attach not only great importance to it, but we ar - more hopeful
about some constructive result out of these negotiations than we were
‘2. few months back when it looked like they were going to be completely
abandoned,
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