Some will be kept for military research and the Pentagon's anti-missile program, officials say.

He also said the Pentagon should abandon continuing efforts to construct a national anti-missile program.

On the anti-missile program, it proposed cutting nearly $1.8 billion from the Administration's proposal, to $2.9 billion.

In 1994 through 1997, the Pentagon's plan calls for spending about $8 billion a year on an anti-missile program.

On the anti-missile program, the bill cuts the President's request from $5.7 billion to $3.1 billion.

And slowly the projects are moving back to other budgets, making the true scope of expenditures for the anti-missile program hard to measure.

The laboratory, 30 miles east of here, designs nuclear weapons and does research for the Reagan Administration's anti-missile program.

The issues they were least concerned about included contra aid and the anti-missile program.

The Pentagon's anti-missile program is soon to test the large interceptor now envisioned for national missile defense.

But early in 1986 top officials in the anti-missile program began to hesitate.