Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even an emotionally disturbed man like Mayer can perceive that Dense Pack and the MX are not the antidotes to the world's unrest...
Whether any real cheer is warranted remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the White House chose former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to head a new commission that will study ways to deploy the MX missile. Other members will include three former Secretaries of Defense and, reportedly, Alexander Haig, who quit as Reagan's Secretary of State only six months ago. The study will presumably lead the commission into a broad review of the composition and strategy of all U.S. nuclear forces, whether or not agreement can be reached with the Soviets on limiting them...
Only on the MX is Reagan's military position eroding. Support for producing the MX, which reached 45% in September 1981, dropped to 35% in the latest poll, taken shortly after the President made his TV pitch for the missile. A slim majority (51%) opposes its production, while 14% are uncertain. Thus the congressional votes cast against the new weapon seem politically safe...
...unto others as they do unto you.' They can't go around the world seeking advantages against us and not expect us to respond. They can't acquire a monopoly in the most threatening sort of missiles, first-strike weapons, without expecting us to build the MX...
...leak came at an awkward moment for the Reagan Administration, which had been embroiled in a dispute with Congress over funding of the controversial MX missile. Barely a week before, during the annual meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Secretary of State George Shultz had got a reaffirmation of West European support for NATO's missile-basing scheme on the Continent. As his two-week European tour drew to a close, Shultz did his best to minimize the importance of a possible shift in the Soviet position. He said in Paris after a meeting with President Fran...