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...Adelman's nomination was al ready in trouble in the Senate; it was approved only after vigorous lobbying by the White House. Now a number of legislators called for Rowny's dismissal. Congressman Aspin, who was emerging as a key moderate in the fight to save the MX, warned Clark's deputy McFarlane: "If you guys want to buy yourselves some political running room for START and the MX, there are two ways you can do it. Either you can change the players-fire Rowny and Adelman; otherwise you've got to change the negotiating position...
...principal negotiations throughout 1983 were not between the U.S. and the Soviet Union but be tween the White House and Congress. The beleaguered MX pro gram was about to run a gauntlet of votes on the Hill, and an increasingly assertive group of Congressmen made it clear that they would continue to support funding only if the Administration adjusted its START proposal to take account of their ideas about what constituted sound arms control...
...required to retire more weapons than it deployed in its arsenal. The build-down was seen by its advocates as a moderate alternative to the freeze that was compatible with the Administration's stated goals of modernization in its defense program (i.e., developing new weapons like the MX) and dramatic reductions as the objective of arms-control talks...
...scheme was being "thoroughly scrubbed"-i.e., studied-by an interagency committee; McFarlane told his own staff he was hoping that the idea could be "killed with kindness." Suspecting as much, Cohen accused McFarlane of "nitpicking the plan to death." He warned that the Administration's support for the MX was "eggshell thin." On McFarlane's advice, Reagan appointed a commission of outside experts that initially was supposed to answer the old, troublesome question of how to base the MX; later its charter was extended to advise on arms-control policy more generally...
...April, after close consultation with key Congressmen, the Scowcroft commission issued a report recommending that the MX proceed as a short-term, stopgap measure, but that Midgetman be the principal ICBM of the future. The report recommended that the Administration, in order to make room for numerous Midgetman missiles, lift the 850-launcher ceiling that had been incorporated into the original START proposal at the behest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The report questioned the Administration's longstanding but widely contested claim that American ICBMs were already vulnerable to pre-emptive attack from the more numerous Soviet ICBMs...