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McFarlane, a conservative but no ideologue, is diligent and has a great facility for detail, particularly in the arcane realm of nuclear arms control. Earlier this year he helped persuade Reagan to temper his arms-control stance to win congressional support for the MX missile. For the past twelve weeks he has performed ably as a special envoy to the Middle East, opening channels to Syria in the Lebanese negotiations. McFarlane is no theoretician in the Kissinger-Brzezinski mold, but he is intimate with the substance of national security. As a no-nonsense National Security Adviser, McFarlane would have...
...This your we're hickey. There is no need to compromise. We needn't settle for half a loaf. Whether it's the MX, never gat or SALT R. Mondale is and has been on the right side. He has never fallen into the trap of Reaganemics and has denounced the essential unfairness of the domestic policies of this Administration from...
...Soviet attack on Korean Air Lines Flight 007 caused hard-liners within the Administration to suggest stonewalling Congress. Ronald Lehman, the chief arms-control expert on the National Security Council, argued to the President that the anti-Soviet sentiments aroused would make it possible to pass the MX in the Senate without any concessions on build-down. He was supported by Rowny and Kenneth Adelman, the head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. But Duberstein kept the pressure on to continue to seek an accord with both groups in Congress...
...factor for a plane carrying cruise missiles would yield a greater SWS total than the K factor for an identical plane carrying bombs, which are viewed as less lethal. The K factor for land-based missiles takes into account the size and number of warheads. Thus the MX missile, with ten warheads, could count as ten SWS's-but the Soviet SS-18, which also has ten warheads, would equal 20.5 SWS's, because it has larger warheads and more throw-weight...
...U.S.S.R. now have about 16,000 SWS's. To help it get down to 8,500 SWS's by 1996, the U.S. could replace its current 1,045 land-based missiles (2,565 SWS's) with 100 MX missiles (1,000 SWS's) and 500 single-warhead Midgetman missiles (another 500 SWS's). The Soviets could, if they wanted, keep 300 of their SS-18 missiles (6,150 SWS's) and fill the remainder of their quota with bombers and sea-launched missiles. But the goal is to penalize retention of such large weapons...