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With Congress and Reagan headed for a possible showdown next year over the third installment of his three-year income tax reduction, the poll finds substantial public opposition to the 10% tax slash. Fully 47% of Americans prefer to cancel the cut if their altruism would help balance the federal budget, while 37% want the cut and 16% are undecided. A higher proportion of Republicans (53%) than Democrats (45%) would like to jettison the tax reduction...
THINGS HAPPEN, sometimes, that make the most earnest student long to cancel her higher intellectual functions. When the seasonal barrage of exams loom, and the voracious maw of the terminal room threatens, high art loses its appeal. Now is the time for Airplane...
EVEN IF IT WORKED, targeting our silos would hardly be worthwhile for the Soviets. An attack on our land-based missiles with theirs would cancel out both sides' first-strike capability. Meanwhile, our submarines and bomber forces, larger and more likely to survive than their Soviet counterparts, could adequately attack Soviet cities and military targets other than silos. After a first strike, the United States would emerge with more and better nuclear weapons than the Soviets...
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...