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...reluctant Congress has authorized only $625 million for the MX missile, and President Reagan may never get all 100 weapons he has requested. Last Friday, however, the Administration got something it badly wanted: a successful first test flight of the 97.5-ton, four-stage, 76-ft. MX...
...President admitted, the 850 figure had never been deemed that important by U.S. arms negotiators. It also stood in the way of a concession that Reagan made to Congress in order to win support for the MX: moving toward a nuclear deterrent based on larger numbers of smaller missiles, each carrying only a single nuclear warhead, which would make them a less tempting target for a first strike. This was a major recommendation of the bipartisan Scowcroft Commission, which Reagan reappointed last week as an advisory panel on arms control to serve until January 1984. The President further emphasized that...
...Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee hailed the President's conciliatory speech as "an important change." Gore heads an influential group of lawmakers who have made their backing for the MX conditional upon, among other things, a moderation of the Administration's arms-control line. Said Gore: "The odds are that we'll continue our support." Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine, however, warned that support for the MX in Congress is still "eggshell thin." Cohen predicted that in coming weeks the House would appropriate $4.5 billion for building 100 of the controversial missiles...
Before Hollings levitated to the presidential level he had real flavor. He called David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, "a pathological finagler." In the debate over the MX, he roared at the opposition, "Dense pack is an appropriate name for more than just a missile configuration...
...last week to finish work in Boston on a musical version of La Cage aux Folles, for which he has written the book and which is scheduled to open on Broadway in August. Suddenly he is in demand. One producer even wants him to be the voice of the MX missile in a film comedy, which is not all that bad an idea. If the MX missile could talk, it might well sound like Fierstein-hoarse, raspy and very direct...