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...even in Adair County, Iowa, with the struggles over the MX missile and stock market jitters only muffled sounds on a far, bright horizon, there is the shadow of troubles ahead. Those fields that now are offering up such bounty are so intensively farmed, in their owners' mad race against high costs, that the topsoil is washing away at an alarming rate. When the Adair prairies were broken some 150 years ago, the topsoil was 12-to 14-in. thick. Today it averages 6 to 8 in. And from a small plane in those glistening skies the fields show...
...debate over where to base the MX missile system has consumed such vast amounts of presidential attention and public print that citizens can be forgiven for some confusion over why President Reagan-and Jimmy Carter before him-decided that the U.S. needs an MX system in the first place. There is a one-word answer: vulnerability. In the opinion of many U.S. arms experts, Minuteman, the principal American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) since the mid-1960s, has become an exposed target-and therefore conceivably a temptation-for a pre-emptive Soviet attack. And if the 1,000 Minuteman missiles...
Many military and political experts, including all those in key posts in the Reagan Administration, have come to accept vulnerability as an unhappy fact of life, fully justifying MX's price tag of as much as $100 billion. Also, concern over the Minuteman's jeopardy is at the core of a much more general anxiety: that U.S. defenses across the board have become vulnerable...
...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...
...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...