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...FORMER ACTOR, President Reagan should have known better. After all, timing is essential in Hollywood, just as it is crucial for successful diplomacy. By announcing a deployment plan for the MX missile so soon after the death of Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev, the President may have ruined the most important scene to be played out in U.S. Soviet relations for years...
...MX decision was a long time coming. Plans had been bandied back and fourth, including one for an underground, mobile system and another--endorsed Monday by Reagan--for a "dense pack" of missiles that will be clustered in "superhardened" silos. So in some form or another, the MX was going to happen. But Reagan would have been much better advised to delay his decision a little longer in light of Soviet overtures to the United States for an improved rapport. Consequently, the MX announcement is the wrong signal to Moscow at the wrong time...
...mobile than America's. In a few years the most threatening of the Soviet rockets will themselves be threatened by the latest U.S. warheads. Some of those are already deployed on Minuteman intercontinental missiles, and others are destined for the Trident II submarine-launched missile and the MX. Even if the MX is defeated by political opposition, the Minuteman and the Trident II programs could still expose the Soviet Union to a mirror image of the "window of vulnerability" that so worries Reagan. That vulnerability will be even more acute for the Soviets, since their submarines and bombers...
...California. The texts of the measures varied some, but the spirit was the same: most called for immediate negotiations for a verifiable freeze in the production, testing and deployment of all nuclear weapons, missiles and delivery systems. In addition to supporting the freeze, Montana citizens voted against basing the MX missile anywhere in the state. Although voters in the city of Denver advocated a nuclear freeze, a statewide constitutional amendment aimed at moving or shutting down the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant near Denver was handily defeated...
...MX. A decision on how to base the MX missile is due by Dec. 1. Congress last spring rejected Reagan's "interim" scheme to place the missile in existing Minuteman silos, and it refused to appropriate $1 billion for construction of the first MXs until the Administration could come up with a more suitable basing mode. The Pentagon is expected to recommend "Dense Pack," a controversial plan to deploy the missiles in superhardened new silos very close together. The aim is to protect the missiles through "fratricide": an attacking enemy missile would be able to knock out some...