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...National Security Decision Directive, outlining the Administration's military and diplomatic stance against the Soviet Union, was prepared by the National Security Council and signed last week by the President. It states that building modern missiles is a first priority. The right to produce the MX advanced systems will therefore not be bargained away. Said NSC Director William Clark last week, discussing the directive: "The President views the production of a modern intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] as absolutely essential...
...plane," after the Democratic Congressman from Queens, N.Y.; his district is near the Long Island plant where the fighter is made by Fairchild Republic Co. Addabbo, chairman of the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, opposes such big-ticket military items as the B-l bomber and the MX missile on grounds of cost. But like most of New York's delegation, he is a strong advocate of the A10. The project is also supported by House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill of Massachusetts; the engine for the plane is made in Lynn, Mass...
Coupled with its $1.6 trillion, five-year defense budget and its plan to push ahead with the MX, cruise missiles, the Trident II submarine program, the B-l and Stealth bombers, the Reagan START proposal in effect offers the Soviets a choice: accept a bilateral deal requiring a cutback on the weapons that may have made the U.S. vulnerable to a first strike, or the U.S. will redress the balance unilaterally by deploying an array of new weapons. In other words, make sacrifices now or face a greatly increased American threat later...
...MX missile. Production of the MX continues even though the Administration has no plan for basing it. There is little chance that the Reagan team will devise a viable method of deployment--it spent several months last year trying to dream up an alternative to the Carter Administration's race-tract-cum-shell game proposal--making the mobile missile a colossal waste of money or a very expensive bargaining chip to be traded off in some distant strategic arms reduction talks...
...list could go on and on. The MX, B-1, aircraft carriers and Tridents are only the most prominent examples of weapons systems that could be cut, but they underscore the need for a careful assessment of every aspect of military spending. The Pentagon and the Administration clearly will not take on that task; it is left to Congress. The House and Senate now have a responsibility to interject coherence and rationality into a military-industrial complex. that has reached obscene proportions...