Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporters. The President touched on all the major national and world worries about the air controllers' strike, the neutron bomb, Poland, the F-16s for Israel. This week Secretaries Caspar Weinberger of Defense and Alexander Haig of State will fly out for discussions on the future of the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. On Tuesday Reagan will meet with Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman to discuss future cuts in federal spending. At the Biltmore, the executive offices of the President appear to be open for business, in spite of their luxurious location in three...
...strongly support military expenditures for conventional weapons as well as for upgrading our officer and enlisted cadres. But I am against our generals' spending astronomical funds on hardware, such as the MX missile, which our troops can't even use properly...
...MX is an environmental issue and not a question of defense. The desert environment of Utah is too fragile to absorb the kind of abuse it gets from being the Government's nuclear-waste dump. How can the nation permit a state with five national parks to become the country's outhouse...
...President also faces decisions about other future U.S. defense systems, such as the MX missile and the advanced strategic bomber. Because opposition to a land-based MX system remains strong among officials in Utah and Nevada, where it would be located, an alternative scheme to place the missiles on air-transport planes remains very much alive. Reagan is scheduled to make an announcement on MX basing soon after his Sept. 3 return to Washington...
...line a distant second and third. If all that tonnage is hard to get the teeth into, conceptually, the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers is happy to calculate that it would provide ten single-scoop cones for every human being on earth, an idea that might make the MX missile unnecessary-at least until the chocolate chip...