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That possibility is taken seriously by the Soviets, who are genuinely frightened of an all-out American buildup. They are worried that an array of new American weapons-the land-based MX and Pershing II, the submarine-launched Trident II, the B-l and "Stealth" bombers, and cruise missiles deployed on land, at sea and in the air-threaten them with vulnerability and inferiority by the 1990s...
...warheads it deploys on ICBMS. In return, the U.S., which has only 2,152 warheads on ICBMS, would have to give up half of its 4,928 submarine-based warheads but could proceed with production of the planned MX ballistic missile, the low-flying cruise missile and the B-l bomber. Nonetheless, the Administration has said that when negotiations begin, all systems "will be on the bargaining table...
...will have to agree to reduce some of their existing systems in order to prevent the U.S. from deploying some of the weapons planned in the Reagan defense buildup. Says one senior official: "What do the Soviets see? They see us opening production lines for MX missiles, cruise missiles, B-l bombers, and soon Stealth bombers and Trident II missiles. We could go on building them in definitely." Soviet officials object to that kind of argument as intimidation. Said Radomir Bogdanov, an arms-control expert at Moscow's USA Institute: "It's the usual American tactic of threatening...
...Joseph Addabbo's plane," after the Democratic Congressman from Queens, N.Y.; his district is near the Long Island plant where the fighter is made by Fairchild Republic Co. Addabbo, chairman of the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, opposes such big-ticket military items as the B-l bomber and the MX missile on grounds of cost. But like most of New York's delegation, he is a strong advocate of the A10. The project is also supported by House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill of Massachusetts; the engine for the plane is made in Lynn...
...work, called on the President to reduce his military budget by up to $10 billion. "Those battleship expenditures don't seem very wise. I think the South Atlantic fiasco proves that ships aren't safe from missile attack," said Packard. "I'd also recommend skipping the B-l bomber and going directly to the Stealth bomber." Agreed Jones: "There's a real question of whether we can intelligently spend that much money that fast...