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Reagan's decision to accelerate work on the 38,000-lb. Midgetman was designed to please strategists who favor the small mobile missiles. Their reasoning: compared with the Minuteman and the new MX, the truck-carried Midgetman will be less vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike and less destabilizing because it cannot threaten a knockout blow of its own. Many in the Pentagon, however, would like to put more warheads on the Midgetman and make it larger. Hence Reagan's decision to order study of a possible Mobileman missile, carrying as many as three warheads. Adding warheads, opponents protest, will...
...past four years, Ronald Reagan has been a kind of Music Man. With careful timing and precision planning, the President has usually been able to march into River City and razzle-dazzle a majority of legislators into joining his parade. Only last month he won funding for 21 new MX missiles from a highly skeptical Congress, largely by convincing lawmakers that their assent was crucial to the U.S. bargaining stance at newly opened arms talks with the Soviet Union. Last week all 76 of the Administration's trombones were blaring in Congress's direction yet again, but this time...
...aide sounded last week like a lecturer at a war college: "When we could pick where and when we wanted to fight, when we could direct set-piece campaigns in which we could mobilize all the White House resources, we never lost a major battle--tax cuts, budget, AWACS, MX missiles. In the past we used to fight one battle at a time in one House of Congress. Now we have three battles going at once [the budget in the Senate, contra funds in both the Senate and the House] and on their ground. It is high risk...
Since beating out five senior rivals last January to become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Wisconsin's Les Aspin has walked a tightrope on defense issues. A knowledgeable critic of Pentagon spending, he nevertheless angered many fellow Democrats by supporting the MX missile. Last week Aspin challenged his party, saying that the time has come to stop playing "the Doctor No of the defense debate." Democrats, he said, ought to start coming up with alternatives to weapons they do not like, instead of merely voicing criticism...
...Year In Spam The U.S.'s year-old CAN-SPAM laws, meant to curb unsolicited e-mail, have had little impact, according to antispam company MX Logic, which estimates that 77% of all e-mail is spam. Feedback by users of America Online show that 2003's favorite spam subjects, Oprah Winfrey, teens and Viagra, were overtaken in 2004 by ID-theft scams, mortgage deals and substitutes for the withdrawn arthritis painkiller Vioxx...