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...propaganda blow, say, by suspending the development of one of your new strategic missiles. And we would respond with the same kind of 'propaganda.' " Is that a veiled offer to scrap the U.S.S.R.'s threatening new multiple-warhead ICBM, the SS-24, in exchange for cancellation of the American MX...
...Administration seems stalled. The major high- level shuffles last January, particularly the job switch between Chief of Staff Baker and Treasury Secretary Regan, wasted time that could have been spent exploiting Reagan's re-election momentum. Congress handcuffed the President on aid to the contras in Nicaragua, MX missile deployment and his defense buildup. Reagan's visit to a German military cemetery in Bitburg raised a storm of criticism at home and abroad. No breakthrough on arms control is in sight, and a summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seems to be drifting into limbo. Tax reform, says former...
...leading antagonist of the MX was Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. Nunn and others have criticized the Government's plan to place the highly accurate ten-warhead missiles in existing Minuteman missile silos. Critics say that the immobile basing system makes the MX vulnerable, and a likely target for Soviet attack. Since March, Nunn has proposed limiting the number of silo-based MX's to 40, and last week he offered an amendment to the pending $302 billion defense authorization bill. When Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole realized that Nunn had enough...
...McFarlane was dispatched to Dole's office on Capitol Hill to bargain with Nunn. Despite the aggressive lobbying effort, the Administration gave in to Nunn's insistence on only twelve additional missiles in fiscal '86. The twelve to be produced will give the Air Force a total of 54 MX's. Of those, 50 can be deployed and four used either as spares or test vehicles. Under the compromise, the Air Force can order production of twelve to 21 more MX's in fiscal 1987. The Nunn amendment also states that Congress could in the future reconsider deploying a larger...
Sunley and the other economists stressed that Reagan must make a vigorous push for the entire reform package if it is to stand any chance of becoming law. Said Rivlin: "The President will have to do for tax reform what he did for the MX -- make a lot of phone calls and twist a lot of arms." Even then, the board agreed, the bill's prospects will hardly be assured. Said | Greenspan: "Anyone who thinks this is going to run through Congress like a hot knife through butter has not observed the political process in this country...