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...rescue seem any closer for the beleaguered MX missile, a prime object of congressional skepticism and budget cutting. A blue-ribbon bipartisan presidential commission headed by Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to President Gerald Ford, is expected to recommend this week that production and deployment of the MX proceed. But Congressmen briefed on the commission's report predicted a tough fight with no assurance that the President will win. The only slight relief the White House could find in the reaction to the MX was a decision by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to revise...
...Soviets' own counterproposal in START is largely a recycled version of SALT II, although with the passage of time they have upped the ante on their side of the table. The U.S. would have to accept some new constraints on cruise missiles, but it could keep the MX, B-1 and other programs alive and use them as leverage in some follow-on negotiation later...
...term and that he might yet succeed in mustering political support for much of his rearmament program-especially if he adopts an approach to arms control that is seen as designed to succeed rather than suspected of being guaranteed to fail. He does have some bargaining power, in the MX and cruise missile programs particularly. It is a question of whether he is prepared to use it realistically...
...MX gives the lie to Administration attempts to paint the Soviet Union as the "real" nuclear menace. The only thing more horrifying than the prospect of the United States fighting a nuclear war is the prospect of the United States starting one. Surely those games have been played out, where vastly outnumbered NATO forces are overrun in Europe and the last hope of the West is America's nuclear umbrella...
Whatever ultimately motivated the decision to build the MX, the missile now represents nothing more than an upgrading of the U.S. nuclear force to first-strike capability. As such it challenges the Soviet Union to yet another round of ever more costly missiles. The MX should be the first casualty of a careful analysis of America's defense needs...