Word: cancels
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...developing brawl could begin this week in the lameduck session of Congress. Either house can indefinitely delay the deployment of the missile by refusing to approve funds for the Dense Pack basing plan. A move in the House last July to cancel MX production failed to pass by a mere three votes. A similar measure in the Senate lost by just four. The Administration is expected to wage an all-out fight to gain funding in the lameduck session since the new House, with 26 more Democrats than the present body, is expected to be even less receptive...
Reagan also made an arms-control case for the system. By hinting broadly that the MX is to be a bargaining chip in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva, he implied that the U.S. will cancel the MX program if the U.S.S.R. accepts the proposal for deep reductions in strategic weapons that Reagan unveiled last May. That possibility, however, is at odds with the official Administration position, reiterated privately after the President spoke, that the U.S. needs the densely packed MX in any event. The Administration has proposed a ceiling on ICBM warheads of 2,500 per side...
...Soviets are on the brink of acquiring a mobile ICBM right now. They were working on one, called the SS-16, until 1977, but were persuaded during SALT II to cancel that program. The SS-16 is a three-stage big brother of the two-stage SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missile that has upset the military balance in Europe. Late last year, the old SS-16 test site at Plesetsk, near the White Sea in northwestern Russia, was the scene of fresh activity, suggesting that the program might be started up again on short notice...
...discrepancy between the Ultimate Question and the Ultimate Answer. The answer, provided in Adams' first book, is 42. The question, postulated in his second book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, is: What is six times nine? The third book says that Q. and A. cancel each other out-and take the universe with them...
Like the President, Emery favors more defense spending, wants a constitutional amendment mandating a federal balanced budget, and opposes any move to cancel the third year of supply-side tax cuts Emery also backed the President's $98 billion "mid-course correction" tax increase...