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...meetings and consultations with hundreds of experts, the eleven-member Commission on Strategic Forces brought forth its 26-page final report last week. There were few surprises. The blue-ribbon panel, appointed last January by President Reagan as a last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range, like the MX's, of 8,000 miles...
...G.O.P. members of the Budget Committee were summoned to the White House to hear the President's final offer: a mere $10 billion trim in the Pentagon's nearly $2 trillion five-year spending plan, to be accomplished by using lower figures for inflation, fuel prices and MX basing costs...
...some years, the Soviets have been building up a sizable, potentially destabilizing advantage in land-based, highly accurate, highly destructive ballistic warheads. The U.S. is seeking to preserve a balance by modernizing the land-and sea-based legs of its strategic triad with the MX and the submarine-launched Trident II missiles. The Soviets are constantly improving their formidable antiaircraft defenses. That makes it harder for U.S. bombers, the airborne leg of the triad, to be sure of getting to their targets. That, in turn, makes it all the more important that the U.S. develop two types of weapons...
...American weapons-the MX, the Trident II, new bombers and cruise missiles-would all be canceled by a freeze, while the Soviet offensive inventory and defensive network would not be affected...
...especially demonstrable in his uneasy relationship with Jimmy Carter. He made the judgment early that he must keep his distance from the unpopular and defeated Carter. In a newspaper interview last month, Mondale made clear that he had differed with Carter on such controversial decisions as building the MX, selling arms to the Saudis and imposing the grain embargo on the Soviets. His candor caused Mondale to be accused of disloyalty. A few days later, at a Georgia rally where six candidates appeared-to Mondale's relief, Carter was traveling in the Middle East-Mondale was the only speaker...