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...record," she insists. When Treasury Secretary Donald Regan spoke at a fund raiser in July, she went out of her way not to be photographed with him. After it became clear that she would face Frank, her positions veered noticeably: this year she voted against funding the MX missile, which she supported...
...overall reduction, and a reneval of a $54 billion authorization for nerve gas production, were the only cuts which the House made without the approval of the White House. The white elephant B-1B bomber, the first-strike Trident 2 and Pershing 2 minutes, an unjustifiable and essentiatly priced MX missle, and a thoroughly absurd and unworkable "civil defense" program were all approved Apparently many legislators see no incousistency in throwing symbolic but meaningless sops to the messive nucleat freeze movement and then fleefully voting for the very weapons which most threaten to destabilize the current neclear balance...
That possibility is taken seriously by the Soviets, who are genuinely frightened of an all-out American buildup. They are worried that an array of new American weapons-the land-based MX and Pershing II, the submarine-launched Trident II, the B-l and "Stealth" bombers, and cruise missiles deployed on land, at sea and in the air-threaten them with vulnerability and inferiority by the 1990s...
...areas of flexibility. If Karpov tables a counterproposal, the Reagan Administration will face some hard choices. What if the Soviets are willing to cut their land-based warheads, but not so deeply as the U.S. wants? Will they do so only in exchange for the U.S. giving up the MX or some other system under development? And is the Administration willing to link START and the negotiations on Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) that are already under way in Geneva...
...Soviets regard the intermediate-range Pershing II as even more of a strategic threat than the intercontinental MX, since it will be based in West Germany, only a few minutes' flying time from their territory. Ground-launched cruise missiles are already on the agenda of INF. The Kremlin wants to deal with sea-launched cruise missiles and its own Backfire bombers in INF; the U.S. is leaning toward treating both in START. Therefore the possibility may arise of merging the two sets of talks...