Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oversupplied the military with funding for the kinds of weapons they have been requesting for 15 or 20 years and other Presidents have refused. Not only is it unnecessary, it is an improper allocation of priorities. The B-l bomber is a waste of money. The densepack MX missile system seems ridiculous to me. I am concerned too that the nonproliferation effort has fairly well been abandoned...
...self-described "libertarian-populist-conservative," Williams is pro-choice on abortion and against MX basing in Montana, and he heretically concedes that the defense budget has some "fat and flab." Williams is, however, solidly in the President's camp when it comes to the economy, believing that Reagan's budget-cutting policies are crucial to aiding the state's ailing farmers and ranchers and reviving the severely depressed mining and timber industries...
...record," she insists. When Treasury Secretary Donald Regan spoke at a fund raiser in July, she went out of her way not to be photographed with him. After it became clear that she would face Frank, her positions veered noticeably: this year she voted against funding the MX missile, which she supported...
...overall reduction, and a reneval of a $54 billion authorization for nerve gas production, were the only cuts which the House made without the approval of the White House. The white elephant B-1B bomber, the first-strike Trident 2 and Pershing 2 minutes, an unjustifiable and essentiatly priced MX missle, and a thoroughly absurd and unworkable "civil defense" program were all approved Apparently many legislators see no incousistency in throwing symbolic but meaningless sops to the messive nucleat freeze movement and then fleefully voting for the very weapons which most threaten to destabilize the current neclear balance...
...Soviets regard the intermediate-range Pershing II as even more of a strategic threat than the intercontinental MX, since it will be based in West Germany, only a few minutes' flying time from their territory. Ground-launched cruise missiles are already on the agenda of INF. The Kremlin wants to deal with sea-launched cruise missiles and its own Backfire bombers in INF; the U.S. is leaning toward treating both in START. Therefore the possibility may arise of merging the two sets of talks...