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...time on Jan. 7, even Brent Scowcroft, its energetic chairman, doubted that it could achieve by its Feb. 18 deadline what the Pentagon, the Ford, Carter and Reagan Administrations and Congress had been unable to do in seven years: find a technically practical and politically acceptable home for the MX missile, the intercontinental bird that only its parent Air Force seems truly to love. Last week, in a chat with President Reagan, members of the commission won an extension of the deadline to the end of March...
...sought mainly because the ten commission members have been unable to reach a consensus in such a short time. But a delay in reporting may also be a tactical advantage. At the moment, the President's defense budget is under heavy fire on Capitol Hill. If the MX became the first military spending showdown, it might fall victim to congressional budget-cutting zeal...
...range" of options, and Scowcroft readily concedes that all of them "have warts." Nonetheless, possibly in an attempt to influence the commission, some members of Congress have floated reports that the group is leaning toward a two-phase deployment plan. In the first phase, an unspecified number of the MX missiles would be placed in existing Minuteman silos after the holes are reinforced to withstand a higher level of enemy warhead blasts. The Senate last year rejected a Reagan proposal to do just that with MX on the grounds that if the Minuteman is as vulnerable to attack...
...sources freely available to the public. Soviet diplomats are a familiar sight on Capitol Hill in Washington, where they sit as observers at open sessions of sensitive congressional committees. Staff members in the office of former Congressman David Emery were taken aback during last year's debate over the MX ballistic missile when one brazen Soviet agent walked in looking for documents on the weapon...
Hennessy is a man who ought to know. Allied played the role of "white knight" in the merger mess, which was stirred up last summer when Bendix Chairman William M. Agee, 45, made a surprise tender offer for the shares of MX missile contractor Martin Marietta. But Martin Marietta turned the tables on Agee. The company promptly retaliated by trying to buy Bendix, and the result was a corporate donnybrook in which the two companies acquired huge chunks of each other and made headlines in the process. Finally Allied was called in by Bendix to buy Bendix stock and save...