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Even though the MX missile is coming under heavy criticism from Governors and other groups in the Western states [April 7], it should be deployed. Since Viet Nam, the U.S. has neglected its obligation to its military institutions. The MX would not only end the vulnerability of our present ICBM force, but would also make the leaders in the Kremlin hesitate before undertaking any more aggressive moves somewhere in the world...
...other solution is even simpler and even more improbable. If people could understand that most tax money, especially on the local level where there are no ICBM's to build, funds sane and necessary projects, the clamor to cut taxes might stop. That seems unlikely, however, in a society willing to cut out remedial reading programs in order to increase disposable income. After all, what's reading when you can buy a Betamax...
...before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Utah's Democratic Governor Scott Matheson and Nevada's Republican Governor Robert List attacked the Administration's plans to install in their states the new mobile MX missile that is billed as the nation's most important ICBM of the future. Both men feared that the $34 billion missile system would do irreparable harm to their states...
...blue and white paint, others in military silver, come and go. The view from the departure lounge and the airport tearoom is like Red Square in Moscow on the anniversary of the October Revolution. About the only weapon missing from this panoply of Soviet military might is an ICBM...
...Boeing missile offers a cheap, quick way for the Administration to beef up the nation's nuclear strike force. Each missile will cost only about $1 million, about one-quarter the price of a Trident submarine-launched ICBM. The use of available technology means that the first missiles will be delivered next September...