Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blasts. To clear the way for the missiles, giant, hydraulically powered blades would rise out of the silos and sweep away obstructing rubble. Once launched, the MXs would be traveling much slower than the incoming Soviet missiles. Thus, as they rose through the cloud of dust and debris, the buildup of heat on their exteriors would not be disabling. Says Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer: "We can fly the MX out before he [the Soviets] can fly his missiles...
...Administration defends the MX as a necessary response to the huge Soviet military buildup of the '70s. Don't you now have a strategic edge...
...Guatemalan leader Gen. Efrain Rios Montt in Honduras. The U.S. is spending several hundred million dollars a year in military assistance to prop up governments in El Salvador and Guatemala and to topple the Sand inista regime in Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Honduras, concerned by the Nicaraguan arms buildup, are diverting more and more funds to the military. Most of this money could be put to more productive use as a stimulus for Latin American economies...
...President Reagan were "especially troubled" that the draft ignored American proposals "on achieving steep reductions in nuclear arsenals, on reducing conventional forces and, through a variety of verification and confidence-building measures, on further reducing the risks of war." Clark noted that the Soviets had mounted a huge arms buildup during the past decade when the U.S. was holding down arms spending. He also argued that it was perfectly moral for the U.S. to make certain that "our deterrent forces remain sufficiently strong and credible to assure effective deterrence." The goal, he said, is "to prevent war and preserve...
...bishops became more active in various antinuclear efforts. In November 1980, the bishops authorized the Bernardin committee to begin work on the pastoral letter. Pressed by mounting local demands to help the poor and the unemployed, key church leaders like Roach also assailed Reagan's $1.5 trillion defense buildup. The ensuing antinuclear wave in Western Europe and the U.S. has strengthened the bishops' commitment...