One said the Soviets may be showing flexibility on strategic arms in order to encourage Congress to oppose the administration's efforts to reinterpret the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 broadly enough to allow further SDI development.
One of the last remaining issues was resolved when lawmakers voted 72-27 to prevent future presidents from being able to reinterpret the treaty's provisions without the Senate's consent.
The provision reflects Democrats' objection to the administration's contention that it has the right to reinterpret the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in a way that would give more leeway for testing space-based defense systems.
On agriculture the EC has so far been rebuffed in trying to renegotiate, modify or reinterpret Blair House, at French insistence.
Three powerful Senate chairmen and the Senate Democratic leader agreed Friday to seek to amend the arms treaty signed by President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a way that would limit future presidents' ability to reinterpret the accord.
Both men, in different ways, wanted to reinterpret architectural traditions for the Imperial age.
Democrats sought to attach a condition stipulating that any attempt by a future president to reinterpret the treaty would have to be approved by the Senate in order to become effective.