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...game is the Soviet leadership the "enemy" is the U.S. ICBM force, and the end of the game brings greater stability and a more assured peace. But before that game gets moving, the Scowcroft report recommended a long, costly, and potentially dangerous "time-out" in the form of the MX missile...
...Roman Catholic bishops adopted a pastoral letter that is sharply at odds with many elements of Reagan policy (see RELIGION). And earlier in the week, three U.S. Senators, including Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, sent the President a letter warning of their potential opposition to deployment of the controversial MX missile. A similar message came from nine members of the House, who were led by Albert Gore of Tennessee. The price of their acquiescence, the Congressmen wrote, was a more flexible U.S. approach to the strategic-arms talks going on in Geneva. If the White House bows to the Congressmen...
...graduate student Scott D. Sagan--tick off their views (and occasionally their differences) on any number of timely strategic issues. Most notably, they back the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe, oppose a blanket "no first use" policy, and split on the construction of the MX missile. They also urge a partial nuclear freeze, oppose the B-1 bomber, and expose developing anti-ballistic weapons that could violate the 1972 SALTI accord...
...scholars make no recommendations on Reagan's plan to build the MX missile, but they conclude that whatever the final decision on the MX, the U.S. should maintain a land-based missile force, even if its is "theoretically vulnerable" to Soviet attack...
...indifferent to the source and careless with the wealth. They need periodic kicks in the pants. Reagan delivered one. But he has gone too far in a number of ways and is being shouldered back to center. The defense budget has been cut and will be cut more. The MX missile will not be based in a "big bird" flapping about the heavens, but will be put into old silos in the ground to save about $33 billion...