Word: midgetman
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...report argued that the highly accurate, nearly 100-ton MX, with ten warheads, is needed immediately to "remove the Soviet advantage in ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] capability" and goad Russia into serious arms-reduction negotiations. For the 1990s, however, the so-called Midgetman missile must be developed because, with one warhead to the MX's ten, it would make a less tempting target to the Soviets...
...enacted Social Security-reform package, the recommendations represent a bipartisan political compromise. But the proposed solution still faces problems on Capitol Hill. The commission has argued that the combination of recommendations is a seamless package, but an effort in Congress to jettison the MX and vote only on the Midgetman seems likely. "Few, if any, will consider our recommendations an optimal solution," summed up retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, the panel's chairman. "If such were available, this commission probably would not have been convened...