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...bomber pilot in World War II, Bentsen strongly supports the MX missile and the B-l bomber, both of which Mondale opposes. Bentsen opposes a nuclear freeze, which Mondale firmly favors. Bentsen is against the protectionist domestic-content legislation; passage of the bill is a top priority with Mondale. Despite the differences, Bentsen would be comfortable running with Mondale. A President, he says, should not be surrounded...
...book argues that many of the proposed weapons systems in the Reagan military buildup are redundant. The Pentagon does not need the land-based MX missile, say the Brookings experts, when it also plans to have the submarine-based Trident D-5 aimed at Soviet targets. Also high on the hit list are the B-1B bomber, the AH-64 attack helicopter and the F-15 fighter. By Brookings estimates, the Government could carve $46 billion out of the defense budget by 1989 without threatening national security...
...Ferraro manages to hold strong views without causing extreme reactions. She is liberal (the Americans for Democratic Action gives her a 75% rating), but not too liberal for her ethnic working-class district, which gave her 73% of the vote in 1982. She is vehemently against deployment of the MX missile, though she supported its development under President Carter. She opposes mandatory school busing, supports tuition tax credits and favors a military draft. On abortion she is pro-choice as a matter of public policy. As a matter of conscience, she is against abortion. "I'm a Catholic...
...partly by imposing a one-year freeze on cost of living adjustments in all federal benefit programs except those aimed at the poor. The proposal would also slash defense spending by almost $50 billion, mainly by canceling a number of weapons systems, chiefly the B-1 bomber and the MX missile...
Actually, the White House legislative strategy group had already concluded that a compromise would be necessary and had worked behind the scenes with Aspin. After the narrow (218 to 212) defeat of an amendment that would have killed MX funding entirely, the White House endorsed the Aspin compromise just minutes before the final roll call...