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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...
Reagan made the bargaining-chip argument because he is concerned about securing congressional approval for the system. He hopes to patch together an uneasy alliance in support of the program made up of hawks who want the MX for its own sake and doves who want it so the U.S. can give it away. That ploy may well backfire. By implying that the U.S. might be able to live without the MX in certain circumstances after all, Reagan has produced a self-contradiction that weakens the case for the missile as indispensable, a fact congressional skeptics have quickly pointed...
...asking themselves why they need worry about giving up anything in Geneva when the U.S. legislative branch may kill the MX before both sides in the negotiations stop stonewalling and start genuine trading. But even if Congress does approve the MX, and thus makes it a possible bargaining chip, the missile is still a flawed idea...
...going to beg for a summit. You Americans make it very difficult. The moment we express interest it becomes a sort of bargaining chip in Washington's eyes. As a statement of policy, however, the Soviet Union is ready for a summit. The door is open...
...deals were engineered by Volvo's patrician chief executive, Pehr Gyllenhammar, 47. He belongs to Henry Kissinger's blue-chip international consulting group and wears a steel-banded watch on each wrist, one set for Goteborg time, the other for New York. Says he: "The diversification is not an escape from automobiles, but we believe that the industry is so strangled at the moment that it leaves no room for us to maneuver...