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...outer. Still, some of the is sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season so far, what with the air-traffic controllers' strike and the resurrection of the neutron bomb. The problems attending these matters have no Rancho del Cielo to escape to; and one must wonder if the nation can really be steered from the saddle...
Nancy Reagan, in jeans and cowboy hat, was uncommonly at ease with reporters. The President touched on all the major national and world worries about the air controllers' strike, the neutron bomb, Poland, the F-16s for Israel. This week Secretaries Caspar Weinberger of Defense and Alexander Haig of State will fly out for discussions on the future of the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. On Tuesday Reagan will meet with Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman to discuss future cuts in federal spending. At the Biltmore, the executive offices of the President appear...
Despite some European fears, the U.S. decides to build the neutron bomb...
...uproar was over the Administration's decision to build the so-called neutron bomb, which is designed to kill as many people as a regular hydrogen bomb ten times its size, and yet cause less damage to nearby buildings (see diagram). U.S. military planners say that small neutron warheads installed on howitzer shells or Lance missiles, which have ranges of 20 and 70 miles, respectively, are the best way to deter or counter the most feared conventional attack by Soviet forces: a massive tank assault across Central Europe. (Warsaw Pact countries have 44,000 tanks compared with NATO...
Reagan last week introduced a major new factor into any future arms-control talks: he decided to proceed with construction of the enhanced radiation warhead, commonly known as the neutron bomb. President Carter deferred production of the weapon in 1978 but allowed development of its components. On Friday, the U.S. began informing its NATO allies of his decision and pledging that the weapons will not be deployed in Europe without allied approval. But one Administration official noted: "Of course the Europeans are going to wonder when the other shoe is going to drop." The neutron bomb, which kills humans...