 That have been given to the Department of Defense by through the National Security Council By the president of the United States and the president has made that clear. I quoted from his statement. This will be reviewed But I think on this basis there is some slippage There was a slippage of six to seven months just on the construction last year, but Johnny would you comment on that? Yes, we have stretched out the program and there was an initial delay as the secretary mentioned We do have a projected new date for the completion of the 12 sites where we to go ahead on the current plan The date for the completion, however, has not been announced in unclassified forms You look very happy We have had some criticism already about Senator Pastore and Senator Jackson Senator Pastore, as you know, says he feels we should rest on the two sites of talent and construction and complete those before we expand the program Senator Jackson has expressed doubt about the necessity of hearing up for defense against the Chinese Do you have any comment on that and do you feel that you may have a difficulty battle over the expanded AVM this year as you did over starting up last year? Well, I don't want to underestimate the We're going to do the best job we can in convincing the Congress to support the president's program As far as Senator Jackson's comments, he made those clear in the committee meeting today I'd rather have, I think, his statement that he has released this noon speaks very clearly and indicates that he supports the Minuteman protection and perhaps he would have gone with one more site But we have a modified phase program Senator Pastore was at the committee today and questioned me at some length His questioning, I believe you should ask him about this but his questioning ran along the lines of the priorities within government and I know Senator Pastore, well, we both happened to serve on the Defense Appropriations Committee and the Health Education and Welfare Committee and I understand his concern but I think we're doing a pretty good job in recognizing those other priorities and I tried to explain our recognition of the priorities in the other fields in the domestic fields as adequately as I could in the committee hearings today In terms we can use, how would you compare the American AVM developments during the past year with the Soviet developments? I believe that we are, from the standpoint of the technology of the anti-ballistic missile system that we are ahead of the Soviet Union and I believe that that is one of the reasons that in all the reports we received from Helsinki they indicated a great deal of interest in this and I believe that it's one of the most important bargaining tools we have as far as the solved discussions are concerned