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...year's pay for those 1240 teachers would cost $16.3 million. That amounts to two per cent of the $815 million in taxes Bostonians will give to the military in 1982. Four days of planning for the MX missile program costs $16 million. The situation in Boston seems grotesquely similar to President Eisenhower's observation in 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who cold and are not clothed...
...concluding sentence--that given a choice between living under totalitarianism and enduring a nuclear exchange, it would choose the former. There must be a rethinking of American foreign policy to reduce the likelihood of nuclear confrontation. Arms reductions talks should be vigorously pursued, offensive weapons such as the MX missle scrapped, and statements about "winnable" nuclear wars and the like ceased. But the majority editorial serves as encouragement to the Soviet Union and other repressive regimes to act aggressively. It does not consider the conventional advantage the Soviets would have in the event of nuclear disarmament, nor does it seem...
...alternate with those on garage sales and cocktail parties. In almost every 750-word spurt, Buchwald manages to get in some downright funny lines, and from time to time an entire installment is clever. For example, no one has challenged Buchwald's claim to the invention of the MX missile-Amtrak gag, which has since become an integral part of Op-Ed page vocabulary throughout the nation. Insisting that "nobody wants to fool the Soviets more than I do when it comes to pinpointing our missiles," he proceeds with the definitive explanation of how Amtrak delays and reroutings would provide...
Weinberger is said to be disappointed that so much attention has been focused on the MX missile and B-l bomber decisions. He feels that Reagan's proposal to improve U.S. radar and satellite communication systems, which went all but unquestioned at the hearings, is just as important as building new weapons. With these improvements, the President would be better able to launch a retaliatory strike while an enemy attack was under way, but before all American silos had been...
Many of those who buy the notion that the U.S. is staring out that window argue nevertheless that some of the $180 billion targeted for the programs might be better spent elsewhere. Chief of Staff Jones, for example, fears that the heavy commitment to the MX, B-l and Trident submarine programs will drain funds away from improving the nation's con ventional military forces. Indeed, there is one aspect of Reagan's proposals that draws universal agreement: the price tag is too low. Weinberger admitted last week that the cost of the six-year program was figured...