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Dense Pack Gets Blasted In a rebuke to Reagan, the House says no to the complex MX basing system
The Administration stumbled on the MX missile's most glaring weakness: after more than eight years of study, the expenditure of $4.5 billion on the missile and consideration of some 30 options, the Pentagon still lacks a politically acceptable and scientifically credible basing mode for its sophisticated bird. Reagan...
Technically, the House did not vote on Dense Pack. It only eliminated $988 million sought by the Administration to produce the first five of the 226 MX missiles it wants to acquire in a program that would cost at least $30 billion. In fact, the House readily approved spending $2.5...
On Capitol Hill, Addabbo got strong help in rounding up anti-production votes from Washington Democrat Norman Dicks. Several Republicans who did not want to be lobbied by Reagan told Dicks, "I'm probably going to vote with you, but don't tell the White House." Despite the...
A day earlier, President Reagan had proposed retaining money to buy the missiles but freezing it only until next spring, when Congress would vote on a new basing mode.