Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States, this movement can already claim major victories. A 10-state nuclear freeze referendum won overwhelming approval in the November elections, and--largely in response to that expression of public sentiment--the House recently rejected President Reagan's dangerous and costly plans to build a nuclear-tipped MX missile...
...President too was generous with his time. Stacks and Brew interviewed him on a day when he was completing his MX speech, and was hoarse besides. "But Reagan was characteristically gracious and pleasant," says Stacks. "Even as his staff paced the room signaling their desire for an end to the interview, he invited more and more questions...
Approval of MX production funds by the House, which is scheduled to begin floor debate on the matter this week, is by no means certain. Almost unnoticed in the furor over the MX was that the Administration made no attempt to restore production funds for the Pershing II missile, which it is scheduled to begin deploying in Europe next year. Addabbo's subcommittee had eliminated those funds last month. After three successive Pershing test failures, congressional sentiment is opposed to full production until the missile's ailments are cured. Even so, the Administration apparently hopes to save...
With far less controversy than on the MX, the House Ways and Means Committee rushed through a five-year $27.5 billion program to rebuild the nation's transportation facilities. Although eventual approval seems likely, disputes are arising over how the funds should be distributed, whether the work can begin soon enough to be effective and whether the 5?-per-gal. gasoline tax increase that would finance it is equitable to lower-income citizens. The House bill, backed by the President and leaders of both parties, also would increase taxes on tires and fees paid by truckers, a proposal that...
...combined explosive force of all of the missiles. But if one of them explodes first, the resulting blast will destroy or at least deflect all the others. This "fratricide" theory remains unproven, but it forms the core of the justification for the "dense pack" basing mode proposed for the MX. If it will work for the MX, as the Administration claims, then it should work for the existing Minuteman silos, which can be hardened relatively cheaply...