European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the Stefi and stripes sunday August 10.1966 Senate granted Access to abm treaty records Washington a the Reagan administration bowing to congressional pressure agreed Friday to make available to senators the negotiating record of the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty Wilh the soviet . Sam Nunn of Georgia ranking Democrat on the armed services committee said the record will enable Menalois to judge whether the administration was Correct in reinterpreting a Section of the treaty to permit deployment of a Star wars defense system based on advanced new technologies. That decision has been under attack by some Law makers who contend it is a serious setback to the arms control process. In my opinion refusal to provide the Senate wit Access to the documents upon which the re interpretation was based would have threatened a fundamental institutional interest of the Senate its Powers and responsibilities under the Constitution As a co equal partner in the trealy process Nunn said. And he said that would have been extremely prejudicial to the Senate s Powers and responsibilities in this  Nunn old the Senate the administration made its decision known in a letter thursday from Secretary of state George Shultz in sen. Richard Lugar r-ind.,chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee. He announced that the administration has agreed to make available that portion of the negotiating record dealing with the limitation on development and test ing of so called exotic abm  the documents will be available to senators and a Small group of staff members Nunn said. We have reserved the right to request any addition Al documents within the scope of our original request which we might identify during the course of our re View Nunn said. And he said he Hope that Access to the record will enable the Senate to reach Ita own judgments regarding the Correct interpretation of the treaty pc jul the t  late Justice s Secretary disputes Rehnquist explanation of memo Washington