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...service to new negotiations with Moscow on strategic weapons; they want to stall until the U.S. military buildup is well under way. But Haig, along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, views arms control as inextricably tied to such major U.S. defense decisions as how to deploy the MX missile and whether to build a new B-1 bomber. Haig is well aware that the European allies are worried by the lack of a U.S.-U.S.S.R. arms dialogue. While Haig's team may end up sending Moscow a proposal for deep reductions somewhat similar to the Carter proposal...
...Better to hold all that destructiveness at one remove. The U.S. keeps a plane in the air with the capacity to trigger the missile system if ground controls are destroyed. It calls the aircraft Looking Glass. And the power of the nation's weaponry is disguised in initials (MX) or mythology (Titan), where even the Titan Prometheus must be having second thoughts...
...race--a fact that the IPPNW would like to reverse by education as to the final consequences of such escalation. "In 1972 we had a chance to outlaw MIRVs. The Russians, who did not have them, wanted to ban them, but we didn't. Now we have to build MX missiles because their MIRVs are threatening us." Lown says, stressing that this spiral could continue indefinately...
Political statements by the Mormon presidency usually resemble its attack on the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978. The complaint against the MX, although couched in moral terms, was not labeled a revelation, and it addressed worldly concerns. With the three-megaton missiles shuttling exclusively around Utah and Nevada, the presidency said, "one segment of the population would bear a highly disproportionate share of the burden...
...already spent $2 billion on the MX. "The missile is vital," insists Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. "The question is, where do we put it?" Last week's proclamation will make it much harder for President Reagan to adopt a plan that would implant missiles in the Mormon heartland...