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Even if Dense Pack is defeated, however, there is no dominant sentiment in Congress for killing the missile outright. The research and development funds enjoy general support, if only as a way to keep some pressure on Soviet negotiators at the Geneva talks. "There's only one argument for the MX-the bargaining chip," says a key Republican leader. "You've got to have MX to go to the table with the Russians...
...missile, even as it sends the Pentagon back to the drawing board for the umpteenth time to figure out a place to put it. That would mitigate the embarrassment for the Administration, and indeed for the nation, of cancellation of the entire program. Killing the MX missile outright would be particularly imprudent at a time when the U.S. is trying so hard to keep the nervous West Europeans from reneging on their commitment to accept the Pershing IIs and cruise missiles. The U.S. does not need the MX in Dense Pack. But it does not need to have the world...
ENTER THE MEN of the cloth, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, into the bloody strife of Palermo. For years, Church and Mafia have made the strangest of political bedfellows. The prelates refrained from outright condemnation because the Sicilian organization was viewed as a strong conservative, anti-communist force, a supporting pillar of peasant society. The mob glady played along...
...present Social Security benefits. The G.O.P. resentment raised by that charge echoed in Reagan's news conference last week. The President complained that elderly people "have been frightened to death" and assured them that "I know of no one, and especially me, who would support" any outright cut in benefits...
...standard rotary-dial phone. Under one of Pacific Tel's deals, subscribers can choose to pay an additional 660 a month for twelve months as a supplement to their rental fee, which works out to $20.88 for the year, after which they will own their phone sets outright and have to pay no further rental charges...