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Where to put the MX, a 96-ton, six-story-tall behemoth loaded with ten nuclear warheads? That political dilemma has most of official Washington ducking into fallout shelters. Congress last week voted to withhold any additional funding for MX deployment systems until the President decides how and where he wants to install the fearsome rockets. The President will not decide until Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger decides. And Weinberger will not decide until he gets some recommendations from a 15-member expert panel chaired by Charles Townes, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist. When will that be? "Nobody knows," says Pentagon Spokesman...
...most publicized plan for deploying the missiles is now nearly synonymous with MX itself and with the controversy surrounding it. Under this $40 billion scheme, the missiles would be wheeled around 200 high-security drag strips scattered over 10,000 miles in the desert wastes of the West. This brobdingnagian shell game is intended to foil any Soviet strike by baffling the enemy: unaware of each missile's actual location, the Soviets would be obliged to target all 4,600 MX shelters to guarantee success. But the drag strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan...
...peak's southern foot, thus providing a natural barrier wall, since the Pentagon expects the Soviet CBMs to come gliding in over the North Pole. The Continuous Air Alert Carrier sounds space age; in fact it entailed floating a flock of coastal blimps, each holding a small MX snug to its underbelly...
...that much stock in pure talk. Only when we capitalists put our precious money where our mouths are do the Soviets get a message they understand and believe. Thus it is that Haig sees the imminent decisions and action on such issues as the B-1 bomber and the MX missile system as key statements of American foreign policy. After the decisions on military buildup have been firmly made, Haig believes, we may see a new willingness in both Washington and the Kremlin to talk about limiting nuclear weapons...
...Ernest Lefever as the nation's top human rights official? Partly because of a fear that other countries might construe support of Lefever as a signal of national sympathy for his unenthusiastic attitude toward a strong American human rights policy. Why do some defense strategists support building the MX missile at a cost of about $40 billion? Not entirely because of its possible military efficacy, but also because of what a commitment to such a system might signal the Soviet Union about U.S. resolve...