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...Central American ante. Congressional committees recently cut in half the Administration's request for $60 million in aid to El Salvador, and sentiment seemed to be building for a different, nonmilitary approach. Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington and Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland proposed a bipartisan commission on Central America, similar to the one that helped design the Marshall Plan after World War II. The panel, which would formulate a strategy of economic aid to the whole region, would consist of business, government, labor and religious leaders, and scholars and representatives of the area. Reagan is said...
...strategic nuclear arms control. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Reagan announced changes in U.S. nuclear bargaining positions that offered, as he put it, "the prospect of new progress" in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which reconvened last week in Geneva. Said he: "These actions reflect a bipartisan consensus on arms control, and new flexibility in the negotiations-steps to be viewed seriously by the Soviets and all others who have a stake in world peace...
...made to Congress in order to win support for the MX: moving toward a nuclear deterrent based on larger numbers of smaller missiles, each carrying only a single nuclear warhead, which would make them a less tempting target for a first strike. This was a major recommendation of the bipartisan Scowcroft Commission, which Reagan reappointed last week as an advisory panel on arms control to serve until January 1984. The President further emphasized that he had given Rowny the go-ahead to explore "all appropriate avenues" for meeting the new U.S. arms-limitation goals. Reagan also spoke about the eventual...
...Republican Senators William Cohen of Maine and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire huddled with White House Aide Kenneth Duberstein in a nocturnal conclave in Vice President Bush's Capitol Hill office to figure out what to do next. The Senators urged the Administration to appoint a high-powered bipartisan study commission. "The MX will never fly if it is a Republican missile," explained Cohen. "It's got to be bipartisan...
...commission's blueprint, including its recommendation that the U.S. proposal at the START talks in Geneva encourage a shift to smaller single-warhead missiles, which are considered less likely to provoke a hair-trigger showdown. Also included in the letters was a commitment to establish a permanent bipartisan advisory panel on arms control. The President further promised to incorporate into the START negotiations a congressional proposal: the so-called build-down, which would require that old warheads be destroyed as new ones are deployed by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Reagan then did some nifty personal wooing, including placing...