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...decision in December to deploy in Western Europe, by the mid-1980s, new atomic-tipped missiles capable of striking targets in the Soviet Union. Thus SALT simply was not all that important any more. Carter, meanwhile, had gone ahead and increased the U.S. defense budget and okayed the MX mobile missile (in response
...floor as Southern senators filibuster. Sam Nunn of Georgia declares that his colleagues' latest demand was to exchange SALT II for the death of Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. Meanwhile, facing growing criticism on the left, Kennedy announces that he will solve the urban mass transit crunch by placing the MX subterranean missile system on city subways...
December 24: Kennedy retaliates by launching an MX missile attack from the Red Line. Washington Burns. Again...
Much of what Congress did pass into law contradicts the "less is more" approach espoused early in the year. Lobbied heavily by the National Education Association, Congress established a separate Department of Education. Both Houses gave the go-ahead to the development of a prototype of the MX missile, a program that if fully carried out would cost an estimated $30 billion. Just before its Christmas adjournment, Congress agreed to guarantee $1.5 billion in loans to the flat-tired Chrysler Corp., by far the largest rescue effort in the country's history. Congress failed to pass any substantive anti...
...most issues Anderson talks more like a Democrat than a Republican. Opposing a significant increase in defense spending, he objects to the MX missile, the B-l bomber and the building of another nuclear carrier. He supports the Equal Rights Amendment and federally funded abortions. He backs the Panama Canal Treaties and SALT II. He has committed the unthinkable act for a presidential candidate of proposing a 50?-per-gal. tax on gasoline to reduce consumption. That would be offset by a 50% cut in Social Security taxes. "What we need," he says, "is not the quick, easy...