Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about missiles in Cuba. Dobrynin survived because U.S. officials concluded he had not known about the missiles either. His sense of humor carried him through tough times. Eyeing a new Washington building with huge glass columns, he cracked: "Aha, that's where you are going to put your MX missiles." He jokes about being the man from the "evil empire." Dobrynin is, by one White House aide's account, the only Ambassador who "can talk, eat, laugh and listen at the same time...
...leading all candidates in the race, and his 35-year political career easily makes him the best known of the top four contenders. Like many Republican Senators and Congressmen in the Northeast, he is a moderate, favoring a reduction in nuclear armaments, opposing the B-1 bomber and MX missile, and supporting the Contadora call for negotiations in Central America...
...which would limit underground nuclear detonations to 150 kilotons or less. The Senate also called on Reagan to seek a comprehensive ban on all nuclear tests and a summit conference on nuclear weapons "without preconditions or assurances of success." The House had already voted to withhold funds for the MX missile until April of next year, the money to be released only if both houses of Congress approve...
...argued, START would not achieve "our mandate from the President" on throw weight. As a compromise, the State Department agreed to "collateral restraints" on Soviet missiles that would cut the SS-18s and SS-19s by two-thirds and require elimination of the somewhat smaller SS-17s. The MX, however, would be virtually unconstrained...
...MX: "Missile-experimental," a large, ten-warhead ICBM that the U.S. is developing as an eventual successor to the Minuteman and as a counter to the Soviet...