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...their own. Later, increasingly alarmed by the Reagan Administration's deepening commitment to a space-based defense system, the Soviets proposed convening a separate round of talks aimed at controlling these weapons alone. The Soviets are more worried about strategic defenses than about new American offensive weapons like the MX. They already have in their arsenal counterparts to the MX, while an all-out competition in defensive systems would require vast new expenditures and a drastic restructuring of their forces. The U.S. refused to negotiate on space alone. The Administration pointed out that the Soviet buildup in offensive weapons...
Another potential side issue that arose was a White House campaign linking progress in Geneva to the MX missile. Attacked by critics for its high cost and questionable basing mode, the missile is scheduled for a series of crucial funding votes in Congress in the weeks after the arms talks resume in Geneva. Without congressional approval of the MX, argued Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, "the Soviets have little incentive to negotiate seriously." Complains Georgi Arbatov, director of Moscow's Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada: "It looks more and more as if the new negotiations are being...
Clancy had gone directly to N.I.P. with the manuscript of The Hunt because his only previously published writing, a letter to the editor and a three-page article about MX missiles, had appeared in the press's monthly magazine, Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute. N.I.P. grabbed Clancy's book; as it happened, the editors had just decided to publish original fiction, provided it was "wet"--about the Navy...
...movements have made headway in both countries. In Australia, Hawke has managed to contain the antinuclear demands of left-wing Laborites without compromising Australia's defense commitments, even though he has come under fire for not consulting enough with his party's caucus--especially in recent days over the MX issue. In New Zealand, Lange seems determined to fulfill his campaign pledge of denying access to nuclear ships...
...practice, that probably means that the U.S. will urge the Soviets to give up large numbers of their currently deployed land-based ballistic missiles in exchange for cutbacks in American offensive and defensive programs that are still in the testing stage, such as the MX missile, antisatellite weapons and perhaps eventually some of the more exotic components of the Star Wars antimissile program. As Nitze confirmed to TIME last week, the Administration's approach to the new negotiations "is consistent with the position we took in START and INF (the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces talks on Euromissiles...