Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minneapolis last Thursday, countering the President with his own news conference. He attacked Reagan for offering empty rhetoric - "voodoo education" policies, he has called them -for a crisis that the former Vice President believes requires generous federal aid. "He's willing to fight to the death on the MX," Mondale said, "but he won't lift a finger for education." Not since Sputnik's triumphant flight in 1957 rattled Americans' faith in their public schools has there been such a clamorous national debate on education. With dueling initiatives, Reagan and Mondale have transformed the ordinarily sleepy...
...whole, they were more a matter of tone and style, even though there were hints of future flexibility. In fact, the President's announcement* was largely aimed at maintaining support on Capitol Hill for the Administration's other nuclear weapons objectives, notably development of the MX missile. The latest START initiative, said a U.S. official, was designed to make "the most of the least possible change...
...President admitted, the 850 figure had never been deemed that important by U.S. arms negotiators. It also stood in the way of a concession that Reagan made to Congress in order to win support for the MX: moving toward a nuclear deterrent based on larger numbers of smaller missiles, each carrying only a single nuclear warhead, which would make them a less tempting target for a first strike. This was a major recommendation of the bipartisan Scowcroft Commission, which Reagan reappointed last week as an advisory panel on arms control to serve until January 1984. The President further emphasized that...
...Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee hailed the President's conciliatory speech as "an important change." Gore heads an influential group of lawmakers who have made their backing for the MX conditional upon, among other things, a moderation of the Administration's arms-control line. Said Gore: "The odds are that we'll continue our support." Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, however, warned that support for the MX in Congress is still "eggshell thin." Cohen predicted that in coming weeks the House would appropriate $4.5 billion for building 100 of the controversial missiles...
Webster is the richest, greediest man in the world. How rich? He has his own MX missile; he schusses down a private ski run atop his skyscraper penthouse; he has never worn the same pair of socks twice. How greedy? He almost corners the coffee-bean market by directing one of his satellites to beam down a hurricane on Colombia (where, he notes wryly, "coffee is one of the two major crops"). Then, when Superman foils his scheme, Webster uses Gus' computer skills to discover virtually all the elements of Kryptonite. It is when Gus improvises the last unknown...