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With words that conveyed both firmness and flexibility, Ronald Reagan last week began the campaign for his plan to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the world's two superpowers. In a prime-time press conference, he elaborated on and defended his proposal, outlined the previous Sunday at Illinois' Eureka College, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Reagan's plan would require deep reductions in the Soviets' large land-based missiles, which form the bulk of their arsenal. "I think you start with first things first," the President said, referring to the massive rockets that he calls...
...then did Ronald Reagan, who has spent much of his adult life refining the notion of America as arsenal of the free world, journey to the sun-dappled campus nuclear Eureka College, his Illinois alma mater, to sound the call for nuclear restraint...
With substantially fewer troops, the other student governments generally boast a huge arsenal of funds collected from mandatory fees often twice the size of Harvard's soon-to-be $10 optional one. The Yale and Dartmouth student governments don't receive student funding, but Brown undergrads, who pay the highest fee, fork over $47 a year activities fee, with a little better than half going to student government which gives two-thirds of its budget of campus groups and divides the rest between administrative costs and social events. Columbia and Princeton recently raised their fees, giving their governments hundreds...
...argument for a freeze rightly focuses on the economic may hem caused by the defense buildup and the failure of previous, more "sophisticated" approaches to arms control They also prove that a freeze is truly verifiable and would entail no loss of the deterrent currently insured by our nuclear arsenal...
...Trident submarine. The navy is spending $30 billion to build 12 of these 600-foot-long subs to hold one-third of the country's nuclear arsenal. For the price of a dozen Tridents, the navy could, according to some calculations, deploy 110 smaller, more maneuverable conventional submarines--many versions of which already exist to carry twice as many missiles and force the Soviets to locate nearly 10 times as many subs...