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...Ronald Reagan, the mutual suicide pact that has precariously preserved the nuclear peace for the past quarter-century is unacceptable, indeed immoral. Why not, he asked in his famous Star Wars speech, switch from a policy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) to one of mutual assured survival by creating a defensive shield that would ''render nuclear weapons obsolete''? Although that dream might seem unassailable, the strategic realities involved raise a far more unsettling question: Will the attempt to create a nuclear shield enhance stability or undermine it? In attempting to rid the planet of doomsday weapons, might SDI merely increase...
...that most will restrict them. Kemp backs an amendment that would permit abortions only in situations where childbirth endangered the life of the mother. Bush would add rape and incest to the circumstances under which abortions could lawfully be performed. Inescapably, Bush is linked to the actions of President Reagan, who has consistently opposed abortion. But Reagan has not satisfied the right-to-life movement's most ardent activists, who feel he has failed to deliver any effective antiabortion legislation. Paul Brown, chief executive officer of the American Life League, a smaller antiabortion group, implicitly conveyed the passions that...
...side, charged that conspirators ''want to get the military out of their barracks.'' The swift denials did little to dampen interest in the allegations. A U.S. congressional committee announced plans to investigate the charges, and others hinted they would follow suit. The pending probes could prove sticky for the Reagan Administration. Charges against Noriega have circulated in Washington for years. The Times reported last week that in 1972, law-enforcement officials in the Nixon Administration proposed to assassinate Noriega in order to help curb Panama's drug traffic. Congressmen will undoubtedly want to know why the U.S. Government continued...
...moment, the Strategic Defense Initiative is a starry vision rather than an actual weapons program. It exists only in the mind's eye of Ronald Reagan and on the blinking computer screens and slide projectors of an array of purposeful scientists. Yet the President's concept of a space-based shield against nuclear weapons-the most radical plan put forward by any Administration since the dawn of the nuclear age-has become the single most powerful force affecting Soviet-American relations. It is also becoming the chief element in an intensifying showdown, within the Administration as well...
Ever since Reagan propounded his Star Wars proposal in March of 1983 as part of a campaign to win support for his defense budget and arms-control policies, the fundamental goals and purpose of SDI have been cloaked in a protective shroud of ambiguity. Yet now, as Congress prepares to decide whether to provide increased funding, SDI is approaching a moment of truth, not because of any scientific breakthroughs or the lack of them, but because a series of changes in the turbulent political and diplomatic atmosphere makes it imperative to come to grips with what is the most important...