 January 3 - $4 Billion in Supplemental Appropriations Sought |
| January 10 - Aspin Ousted as Armed Services Chairman |
| January 10 - Defense Money: Where Does It Go? (chart) |
| January 10 - Defense: Debate Centers Not on Size of Pie, but How to Divide It |
| January 17 - Four Battling for Armed Services Chairmanship |
| January 17 - Stiff Challenges to Reagan Program: Key Players Mirror Democrats' Defense Odyssey |
| January 17 - Taking a Look at the Four Contenders For the Armed Services Chairmanship |
| January 24 - The Two Treaties: What They Would Do |
| January 24 - Verification Debate Stalls Nuclear Test Pacts |
| January 31 - Senators Offer Bill Requiring SALT II Compliance |
| February 7 - Doubling of Forces off Middle East: Carriers Draw Political, Budgetary Scrutiny |
| February 7 - House Democrats Call for Moratorium: GOP Objections Stall Efforts For Test-Ban Votes in Senate |
| February 14 - No Clear Winners, Losers: Administration, Hill Revisit Debate Over ABM Pact, SDI |
| February 14 - The Legal Issues in the ABM Treaty... Fuel Debate Over the SDI Program |
| February 14 - The Nunn Letter: A Text |
| February 21 - CIA Nominee Gets Tough Reception on Hill |
| February 21 - Israelis Agree to Provide Information... ...To Congressional Iran-Contra Probes |
| February 21 - Senate Arms Control Moves Get Tepid Reviews |
| February 21 - Webb Named Secretary of the Navy |
| February 28 - A White House Effort to 'Blur' Reagan's Role |
| February 28 - Delay Seen in Consultations on SDI |
| February 28 - Soviets Resume Nuclear Tests |
| February 28 - Unfolding of a Flawed Policy: Despite Claims to Contrary, It Was 'Arms for Hostages' |
| March 7 - 'Best Warplane' or 'Candidate for Disaster': House Members Criticize Troubled B-1 Bomber |
| March 7 - ...A Chronicle of Offers, Counteroffers Reducing Intermediate-Range Missiles... |
| March 7 - Reagan Takes 'Responsibility' for 'Mistake' |
| March 7 - Soviet Offer Breaks Logjam on Euromissiles |
| March 14 - Nunn Blasts Administration on ABM Treaty |
| March 21 - Amendments to Supplemental Money Bill: Critics Set to Challenge Reagan Over His Arms Control Policies |
| March 21 - House Votes to Make New GI Bill Permanent |
| March 28 - ABM Debate: Aides Defend the Reagan View |
| March 28 - House Democrats Make Opening Gambit... ...Over SALT Compliance, Nuclear Test Ban |
| March 28 - Spending Bill Reflects Congress' Wants, Needs |
| March 28 - Supplemental Totals (chart) |
| April 4 - House Armed Services Preparing to Act: Reagan Facing Major Rebuffs In Defense Authorization Bill |
| April 4 - House Panel Deals Setbacks to SDI Program |
| April 11 - Committee Shifts: Hard Times for Hard-Liners |
| April 11 - Further Cutbacks Needed: House Panel Votes $306 Billion For Defense Authorization Bill |
| April 11 - Members Urge Changes in Arms Sales to Saudis |
| April 11 - Novelist-Expert Picked to Head the Navy... ...Receives a Favorable Review on the Hill |
| April 18 - Fundamental Shift in NATO Strategy: Shultz, Soviets Draw Nearer To Agreement on Euromissiles |
| May 2 - 'Catch-Up' on the Medical Front |
| May 2 - Defense Bill Poses Funding, Policy Challenges |
| May 2 - Fiscal 1988 Defense Authorizations: a Comparison (chart) |
| May 2 - Panel OKs $9.4 Billion Add-On Spending Bill |
| May 9 - ABM Treaty the Key: Senate Panel Lays Groundwork For Showdown on 'Star Wars' |
| May 9 - Arms Control, Funding at Issue: House Rebuffs Reagan Views On Defense Spending, Policy |
| May 9 - Having No Truck With Pentagon Mitsubishis |
| May 9 - Hollings Lifts 'Hold' on Webster Nomination |
| May 16 - Fiscal 1988 Defense Authorizations (chart) |
| May 16 - House Slashes President's SDI Request... ...In Move to Slow Push for Deployment |
| May 16 - Parliamentary War Erupts Over Defense Bill |
| May 16 - Sen. Nunn at the Center: Critical Showdown Over SDI Under Way on Capitol Hill |
| May 16 - Senate Panel OKs State Department Bill |
| May 23 - A Question of Prerogatives: Dispute Over the ABM Treaty Stalls Defense Bill in Senate |
| May 23 - Contra Cash Flow: Tracing the $34 Million |
| May 23 - Panel's Toughened Stand on Contracting... ...Pre-empts the 'Procurement Reformers' |
| May 23 - Saudi Arms Sale Delayed After Gulf Incident |
| May 23 - Victory for Growing Democratic Solidarity: House Approves a $289 Billion Defense Bill |
| May 30 - 'Reflagging' of Kuwaiti Ships to Follow: Reagan to Report to Congress On Plan to Guard Oil Tankers |
| May 30 - Major Provisions, 1987 Supplemental Funding Bill |
| June 6 - 'Reflagging' of Oil Tankers at Issue: Hill Demonstrates Its Unease Over Policy in the Persian Gulf |
| June 6 - Attempt Fails to Block Honduran Arms Sale |
| June 6 - Defense Spending: Budgeted Amounts vs. Appropriations (chart) |
| June 6 - Foreign Aid, Arms Control, Immigration Issues: House-Senate Disputes Likely Over Fiscal 1987 Supplemental |
| June 13 - Conferees Split Over Fiscal 1987 Funding Bill |
| June 13 - Faced With Mounting Hill Opposition... ...Reagan Withdraws Saudi Missile Sale |
| June 13 - Funding Level Kept Secret: House Passes Intelligence Bill;Extends Covert Contra Aid Ban |
| June 13 - Unnecessary Risks, Insufficient Force? Hill Continues Barrage on Reagan's Gulf Policy |
| June 20 - 90-Day Delay of Escort Plan? House Democrats to Challenge Reagan's Persian Gulf Strategy |
| June 20 - Nature of the Threat in the Persian Gulf... ...Defines Military's Options to Respond |
| June 20 - Some Agreements Reached in Private: Cost, SALT Provisions Slow Supplemental Bill |
| June 27 - Hill Weighing Options on Persian Gulf Policy How to Give Reagan A Graceful Way Out? |
| July 4 - Arms Control Agency Bill Advances |
| July 4 - Congress Clears Supplemental Spending Bill |
| July 4 - Major Provisions of Supplemental Funding Bill |
| July 4 - Republicans Hold Off Critics of 'Reflagging' |
| July 11 - House Committee OKs Military Construction Funds |
| July 11 - House Votes to Delay Oil-Tanker 'Reflagging' |
| July 18 - Across-the-Board Cut Rejected: House Approves Funding Bill To Build Pentagon's Facilities |
| July 18 - Military Construction Appropriations (chart) |
| July 18 - Moves to Block Ship 'Reflagging' Rejected in Senate |
| July 25 - Congressional Panels Voice Concern: Nuclear-Materials Incident Jeopardizes Aid to Pakistan |
| July 25 - Negotiations Prove Fruitless: Defense Stalemate Drags On; Nunn Threatens to Drop Bill |
| July 25 - Senate OKs Funds for Arms Control Agency |
| July 25 - U.S. Ships Escort 'Reflagged' Kuwaiti Tankers: Senate Lodges Indirect Protest to Gulf Policy |
| August 1 - Adelman Quitting Arms Control Post |
| August 1 - New Rules at Intelligence Committee: Leahy's Departure From Panel Followed a Leak to a Reporter |
| August 1 - Pentagon Reportedly Beefs Up Role in Gulf |
| August 1 - Senate Wants New Embassy Agreement |
| August 8 - Adding Funding for Base-Rights Countries: Foreign Affairs Panel ApprovesA New Authorization Measure |
| August 8 - House Foreign Aid Revisions (chart) |
| August 15 - Compliance With ABM, SALT: Arms Control Activists Hone Tactics for Fall Fight in Senate |
| August 15 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Defense |
| September 5 - More Than Missiles Will Be Abandoned... ...If U.S., Soviets Sew Up an INF Treaty |
| September 5 - Waiting for the INF Treaty: Political Jockeying |
| September 12 - Ambassador Finally Wins Confirmation |
| September 12 - No Request Yet to Fund Gulf Convoy |
| September 12 - SDI Limits Still Hotly Contested: Senate Begins Defense Debate As GOP Abandons Filibuster |
| September 12 - Veterans' Lobbies Showing New Unity on Hill |
| September 19 - Hill Trio's Visit to Disputed Soviet Radar... ...Adds More Fuel to Arms-Control Debate |
| September 19 - Senate Deals Reagan a Major Defeat on SDI |
| September 26 - Arms Control Agendas: Prospective INF Accord Faces Obstacles From Many Quarters |
| September 26 - Gulf Coup Brings Reagan No Political Payoff |
| September 26 - In Hill-Reagan Tug of War, the Tugs Get Harder |
| October 3 - Problems of Exiting Procurement 'Czar'... ...Leave Capitol Hill With No Quick Fixes |
| October 3 - Reagan Urged to Reconsider Saudi Arms Sale |
| October 3 - Reagan Wants No New South Africa Sanctions |
| October 3 - Senate Rebuffs Reagan on Key Defense Issues |
| October 10 - Organization of American States Address: President Praises Peace Plan, Vows Support for the Contras |
| October 10 - War-Powers-Type Action in the Offing: Senate Shows New Frustration With Policy in the Persian Gulf |
| October 17 - Cloture Vote Set: Senate Warms Up for New Test On Re-flagging in Persian Gulf |
| October 17 - Defense Authorization Conference |
| October 17 - Military Construction Appropriations |
| October 24 - Iran-Contra Report Delayed |
| October 24 - Military Construction Funding Cut: Senate Bill Sends a Message To Allies on Burden-Sharing |
| October 24 - Persian Gulf and Congress: A Chronology |
| October 24 - Senate Shows Its Ambivalence in Votes on Gulf |
| October 31 - Disputes Over Budget, Arms Control: Panel Whittles $24.8 Billion From Spending on Defense |
| October 31 - Senate Passes Military Construction Bill |
| October 31 - Warner: Seeking Compromise, Finding Criticism |
| November 7 - Controversy Over ABM, SALT: White House, Conferees Near Deal on Arms Control Disputes |
| November 7 - Pentagon May Face Still More Pain: Defense Funding Takes an Unprecedented Cut |
| November 7 - Will Carlucci Take a Softer Line Than Weinberger? At Pentagon and the NSC, Changes at the Top |
| November 14 - Accord in Sight on Defense Authorization |
| November 14 - Conservatives Take Aim at New Treaty: Arms Controllers Line Up With Reagan on INF |
| November 14 - Hard Choices on the Pentagon's Budget... ...Bring Down Two Attack-Plane Programs |
| November 14 - Speedy Confirmation Expected: Carlucci Brings a Softer Tone To Hill Discussions of Defense |
| November 21 - Carlucci Confirmed as Secretary of Defense |
| November 21 - Controversy Shoots Down Gorbachev Speech |
| November 21 - Final Amount Depends on Budget Summit: Defense Authorization Clears As Arms Control Battles Fade |
| November 28 - Armed Services May Hold Hearing on Gen. Powell |
| November 28 - Authorizations for Defense: A Comparison |
| November 28 - Congress Tightens, Reshapes Defense Budget |
| November 28 - INF Pact to Sweeten Reagan-Gorbachev Summit |
| November 28 - Regional Issues: Also on the Summit Agenda: Afghan, Persian Gulf Conflicts |
| December 5 - Before the Ink Is Dry, Key Senate Players... ...Are Preparing for Debate on INF Treaty |
| December 5 - Bill Reflects Budget Accord: Senate Committee Approves $274 Billion Defense Measure |
| December 5 - Conciliation Colors the Pre-Summit Picture |
| December 5 - Conferees Make Progress on State Department Bill |
| December 5 - Sen. Stennis Dodges Effort to Honor Him |
| December 12 - Apart From the 'Hell, No' Votes, Senate Likely to Concur |
| December 12 - Dec. 3 Interview With TV Anchors: Reagan Previews U.S.-Soviet Summit |
| December 12 - Old Adversaries Turn to Pragmatic Diplomacy |
| December 12 - On SDI and Cutting Long-Range Missiles... ...A Combination of Punting and Progress |
| December 12 - Senate Appropriators Chop Pentagon Funds |
| December 12 - Signed Dec. 8: Text of Treaty on Intermediate-Range Missiles |
| December 12 - Text of Reagan, Gorbachev Comments: Superpowers Sign INF Treaty, Join In TV Address to Nations |
| December 19 - Bush a 'Solid' Backer of Iran Arms Sales |
| December 19 - Conferees Take Defense Funds Close to Cap |
| December 19 - Senate Confirms NSC Adviser Powell in Rank |
| December 26 - Senate Moves to Facilitate INF Treaty Hearings |
| December 26 - The 100th Congress: Defense |
