Word: laxalt
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...proposed selling some $5 billion worth of air weaponry, including five highly sophisticated Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, to Saudi Arabia last April, there was little doubt that opposition might be strong enough in Congress to veto the deal. Republican Senators Howard Baker of Tennessee and Paul Laxalt of Nevada advised the President to delay official notification of his intent to make the sale until he had enough votes lined up to support the package. Reagan waited, and last week sent that notification to Congress...
Lost in the planning turmoil was the original MX design, with its 4,600 shelters scattered across the deserts of Utah and Nevada. Three billion dollars has already been invested in that system, but it is opposed by powerful Republican Senators Jake Garn of Utah and Paul Laxalt of Nevada. There is little question that Reagan wants to avoid crossing his powerful political friends. White House Counsellor Ed Meese is believed to feel that the original MX system was devised to fit Jimmy Carter's failed hopes for a nuclear arms limitation treaty and, thus, the multiple-shelters idea...
Three conservative Republican Senators from the region, Reagan's friend Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Orrin Hatch and Jake Garn of Utah, have come out against the plan?so have leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church), an especially powerful force in Utah. In addition, Weinberger reportedly is concerned that the Soviets, unless restrained by a new SALT agreement, could use the eight years it would take to complete the land-based MX system to deploy enough of their own intercontinental warheads to wipe out all 4,600 of the shelters...
Many conservative Republican Senators added their endorsement. Utah's Orrin Hatch called it "a fine choice." Reagan's close friend, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, was enthusiastic, and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said he was "delighted by the nomination." But South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was a bit more restrained. "I intend to support her," he said, "unless something comes...
...strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan) as technologically dubious and ridiculously expensive. Two months ago the powerful, conservative Mormon church joined the naysayers, beseeching the White House not to station the MX in Utah and Nevada. Then a brace of hawkish Republicans, Senators Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn of Utah, marched into the Pentagon with their own panicky manifesto denouncing the Air Force's plan to put MX in their states. Next Congress's Office of Technology Assessment chimed in with a careful report that found serious fault with each...