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The House Appropriations Committee is expected to take up the MX basing scheme this week. A subcommittee headed by New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo, a sharp MX critic, voted 7 to 6 to recommend spending $998 million to acquire five of the missiles. Addabbo will now fight to block those...
Chances of survival for MX production funds are not much better in the Republican-controlled Senate. "It's going to be very, very close," predicts one Senate insider. Texas Republican John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has praised Reagan for a "courageous" decision on the MX...
If, as the Administration maintains, the MX is absolutely vital to American safety-if we quite literally cannot live without it-then why put a hundred of the missiles in one spot? Does not the basing plan exacerbate the problem it is supposed to solve, which is the vulnerability of...
For years, viewers of the TV evening news have been treated to animated illustrations of ways that the Soviets might be able to destroy the MX in its various Rube Goldberg basing schemes, including this latest one. Designers of the various plans have responded that the Soviets could not be...
Making American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) invulnerable to pre-emptive attack is nearly impossible as long as the Soviets can "beat" any system by adding great numbers of warheads and barraging U.S. targets. Even if a theoretically unbeatable system could be devised, and that is highly doubtful, it would be...