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King Of Hearts (Harvard Square): The movie this reviewer will attend if a suitable companion can be found. It's about a French town that opens the doors of its insane asylum just before the Nazis arrive. Cheaper than the MX and more effective. This is one of those cult movies that people go to see 37 times before they scream "I'm sick of this shit" and run out of the theater. My theory is that every fifth frame of a cult movie shows an authority figure saying "See this movie repeatedly." I use a similar tactic...
Miller suggested using laser instead of radio communication, placing communications satellites above the range of Soviet anti-satellite missiles, and boosting replacement satellites in space by mounting them, instead of warheads, on MX-missiles...
Despite the fact that most of the Pentagon brass backed the race track option for the MX, the White House rejected the plan both because of its high price tag (estimated cost: $75 billion) and because it is believed the system would still be vulnerable to Soviet missiles. Says a top White House aide: "The race track was dead as far back as the election campaign...
With the drag strip dumped, Weinberger preferred simply developing the smaller, so-called common missile-it could be fired from submarines or planes -rather than the more accurate MX; he then switched to a preference for basing the MX temporarily in C-5A transport planes. The wrangling dragged on for months, with the White House growing frustrated over Weinberger's dithering. Finally, Reagan chose to house the MX temporarily in the Titan missile silos while other options are studied further...
...report was released just three days before President Reagan announced his decisions on the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. Naturally, there was suspicion that the timing was designed to help the Pentagon justify the vast sums needed for the new strategic systems. Weinberger flatly denied the charge. Plans for the booklet, he said, began last April after the U.S. presentation of a top-secret "threat assessment" of Soviet military strength to NATO defense ministers in Bonn. The ministers were sufficiently impressed to urge Weinberger to make the study public so they could use it to defuse opposition...