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...Minneapolis last Thursday, countering the President with his own news conference. He attacked Reagan for offering empty rhetoric - "voodoo education" policies, he has called them -for a crisis that the former Vice President believes requires generous federal aid. "He's willing to fight to the death on the MX," Mondale said, "but he won't lift a finger for education." Not since Sputnik's triumphant flight in 1957 rattled Americans' faith in their public schools has there been such a clamorous national debate on education. With dueling initiatives, Reagan and Mondale have transformed the ordinarily sleepy...
...whole, they were more a matter of tone and style, even though there were hints of future flexibility. In fact, the President's announcement* was largely aimed at maintaining support on Capitol Hill for the Administration's other nuclear weapons objectives, notably development of the MX missile. The latest START initiative, said a U.S. official, was designed to make "the most of the least possible change...
Webster is the richest, greediest man in the world. How rich? He has his own MX missile; he schusses down a private ski run atop his skyscraper penthouse; he has never worn the same pair of socks twice. How greedy? He almost corners the coffee-bean market by directing one of his satellites to beam down a hurricane on Colombia (where, he notes wryly, "coffee is one of the two major crops"). Then, when Superman foils his scheme, Webster uses Gus' computer skills to discover virtually all the elements of Kryptonite. It is when Gus improvises the last unknown...
...Five Harvard specialists on nuclear weapons policy published a book supporting a partial nuclear freeze, backing deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe and opposing the B1-bomber but it reached no conclusion on the proposed MX. The study, "Living With Nuclear Weapons" culminated a year long projecting that began the previous June when President Bok announced at Commencement that the University should help to educate the public by providing an objective report on nuclear issues...
Despite last week's tactical triumph, the MX may still get shot down. Some congressional critics, who believe the MX accelerates the arms race, were more annoyed than assuaged by the rhetoric of the MX debate, which was so neatly wrapped in the mantle of arms limitation. By week's end, 19 Republican Senators who had sided with the President dispatched a bluntly worded letter reminding him of his promises and warning him not to take their support for granted. Indeed, last week's action was only the first test facing the MX, which has been...