House Revives SST; Senate Vote Is Next From the Wire Dispatches

The battle over developing an American supersonic transport plane was revived yesterday when the House executed an about-face and voted $85 million dollars to restart the project.

The Senate will take up the renewed fight next, and Majority leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) has predicted the outcome will be close.

With the leaders of both parties in the House behind them, backers of a drive to restart the SST project won an initial test by 201 to 195 and naile it down by 201 to 197 on a second vo? Eight weeks ago they lost 215 to 204