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...demands that we cut off or delay research and testing and close shop is: No way. SDI is no bargaining chip." Even that was not enough for some of SDI's most ardent supporters. Just before his speech, eight conservative Congressmen met with Reagan to press him to deploy portions of a space defense as soon as any are ready rather than wait into the 1990s for the full system to be operational. In his later talk, the President in effect said no to that demand also: "I know there are those who are getting a bit antsy...
...earn a profit of $38 million in 1985. Midland was willing to sell Crocker because better profit opportunities are becoming available in Britain as the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deregulates the country's financial markets. For that reason, Midland decided that it made more sense to deploy its resources at home rather than continue a long-distance relationship with Crocker...
...shouting "We want Kemp!" Addressing members of the audience as "fellow revolutionaries," Kemp assured them that "our ideas are on the march and nothing can stop them." He drew loud applause with a pledge not only to pursue research on Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative but also to deploy it. That is a matter on which Reagan has still not made a final decision. Before this audience, however, it was no risk to take a position more hard-line than that of the President...
...Soviet weapon--the "fast-burn" rocket. According to the report, such a device could speed into orbit and shut down its engines before the heat-seeking sensors of SDI satellites could home in on its jetstream. The report predicts that the Soviets could "develop, produce and deploy" fast-burning rockets as early...
...this month National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane astonished many arms-control experts by announcing on NBC's Meet the Press that wide-open testing and even development of the space-based Strategic Defense Initiative, as Star Wars is formally named, is "approved and authorized" by the ABM treaty. "Only deployment (of SDI) is foreclosed," McFarlane claimed. This was an abrupt reversal of U.S. policy. Previously, everyone had assumed that Article V of the treaty meant what it said: the U.S. and the Soviet Union were committed "not to develop, test or deploy ABM systems or components." The Pentagon accordingly made...