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...MX foes get four more chances to kill the bird
...after wrangling for months in the partisan atmosphere of an election year, leaders of the Republican Senate, the Democratic House and the Reagan Administration finally reached agreement last week on military spending. The compromise included goodies for all participants. But on the stickiest issue, the future of the MX missile, House Democrats came out a clear winner...
...Leader Howard Baker, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and White House aides does not kill the often wounded but seemingly indestructible intercontinental missile. Unless its critics are undermined by a Reagan re-election landslide, however, they will have at least four clean shots next year at grounding the MX for good. Predicted a confident O'Neill: "The MX will never be deployed." Warned a less certain Democratic colleague, Representative Les AuCoin of Oregon: "MX is in its coffin, but we still have to drive the silver stake through its heart...
...spending side, the Democratic nominee proposes to reduce military outlays in fiscal 1989 by $25 billion below Reagan's projections, in part by canceling the MX missile, the B-1 bomber and the Star Wars antimissile system, all of which Mondale considers both costly and ineffective. Defense expenditures would still increase, but by only 3% to 4% a year above the rate of inflation, vs. 1% under Reagan's plans. Domestically, Mondale would set limits on federal outlays for Medicare, leaving states to figure out what cost-cutting steps would enable them to squeeze under those ceilings. Whether...
...campaign trail. At a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Chicago, he accused the Democrats of being responsible for a "dismal chapter of failed policies and self-doubt." They "claimed to be for a strong defense, he chided, while advocating the cancellation of the B-1B bomber and MX missile and supporting a nuclear arms freeze. That sort of stance, he said, reminded him of the saying, "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build...