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...week's end Reagan finally bowed to congressional realities. He announced that he was willing to delay indefinitely any final decision on how to deploy the MX. Meanwhile, he argued, the Senate should approve production funds for the MX, and the House should reconsider its rejection of those funds so that no time is lost in the missile's possible deployment. Said he: "I welcome a vigorous debate on the best way to base the missile...
...President needs a clear sense of priorities. Reagan has the ability to concentrate his energies and the country's attention. Detractors might say this was because he has less energy to deploy. Carter had prodigious energy and diffused it too widely. Presidents should have the knack for keeping three or four balls in the air, but not the urge to toss
...paper explaining his decision, Reagan conceded with great understatement that "deciding how to deploy the missile has not been easy." He described the Dense Pack plan only as "a reasonable way" to deter an attack. Theories on how the U.S.S.R. might find techniques to destroy the closely spaced MX missiles were dismissed as "technical dreams on which no Soviet planner or politician would bet the fate of his country...
...funds its production. The committee seems virtually deadlocked on the issue. "I think it will be beat, not in committee but on the floor," predicts a key House Republican leader. Insists Massachusetts Democrat Nicholas Mavroules: "Time has run out for MX. The House will not gamble with billions to deploy a system of marginal capability and questionable survivability...
...case. The American rebuttal that Dense Pack silos are shelters rather than launchers is pure casuistry. But that is not the biggest problem. Because hundreds of the new ICBMS would substantially increase the vulnerability of the Soviet Union's fixed-site ICBMS, the Kremlin might be induced to deploy a new generation of mobile ICBMS. Land-mobile missiles are a nightmare for both defense planning and arms control. Precisely because they can be moved around and hidden, they complicate the other side's confidence that treaty limits are being observed. (SLBMS, by contrast, are mobile and virtually invulnerable...