Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...registration as part of a growing militarism reflected in such developments as the abandonment of the SALT II treaty, the unleashing of the CIA, the development of the MX missile, and increased military spending...
...Anderson they found a man who supports the Panama Canal and SALT II treaties, gun control, the Equal Rights Amendment and some forms of school-busing, and who opposes the MX missile, B-1 bomber and selective service registration. His record on civil rights has been particularly distinguished; it was his vote in April, 1968 that allowed President Johnson's open housing bill to get through the Rules Committee. But on the economy, the domestic policy area over which a president has most direct control, Anderson remains a conservative, a man who believes a balanced budget is the primary goal...
...summit when President Carter kissed President Brezhnev on the cheek. We cannot afford a foreign policy based on the pangs of unrequited love." Kennedy cautioned against taking action in the Persian Gulf without the support of our allies. He warned against haste in adding new nuclear weaponry like the MX missile to the U.S. arsenal. He opposed registration for a peacetime draft. He criticized Carter for allowing the Shah of Iran into the U.S., and he called for a U.N. commission tc investigate Iranian grievances once the hostages are returned...
...additional funds for the Pentagon next year, an increase of 3.3% after inflation. The President outlines defense spending through 1985 that cumulatively adds $90.1 billion more to defense budgets than would be needed simply to maintain this year's force levels. Increased spending includes money for the MX intercontinental missile and Trident submarines, and to equip the Rapid Deployment Force of some 100,000 troops that is to be ready by 1983 for use in world trouble spots like the Persian Gulf...
...trouble was, de-emphasizing the Soviet-American relationship necessarily meant defusing the Soviet-American rivalry, and just the opposite has happened. The Soviets were angry over the human rights policy, rapid Sino-American rapprochement, the hawkish tone of the Senate SALT debate, the go-ahead for the MX missile, and the decision to deploy new weapons in Europe. Partly because of that anger and partly because of the imperatives of their own national security, the Kremlin rebuffed U.S. attempts at "persuasion." It was as though the old men in the Politburo had decided to teach Carter a lesson in what...