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...those tentative secret decisions that aim to give something to everyone. But the document drafted after an intense National Security Council meeting last week had elements to placate all sides of the Administration's fractious arms-negotiating team. In a significant victory for Secretary of State George Shultz, Reagan decided to scrap two American submarines to continue--for now--compliance with the unratified SALT II treaty. Yet to please Pentagon hard-liners, he set the stage for "proportionate responses" to alleged Soviet violations. Work will be accelerated on the small single-warhead mobile missile known as the Midgetman...
...support for Rockwell International's B-l bomber. Within 90 days, Meese must either ask a panel of three Washington judges to name the counsel or explain why he has not done so. Such an explanation could be ticklish, given the close association between Meese and Deaver. During Ronald Reagan's first term, they constituted two-thirds of the unofficial troika of White House officials who wielded power second only to the President...
Deaver remains exceptionally well connected: the White House confirmed last week that he still gets a detailed copy of Reagan's daily schedule. In response to questions about Deaver in Los Angeles last Friday, Reagan declared, "I think the whole thing is ridiculous." Nonetheless, all the attention could cost Deaver a bundle. Saatchi & Saatchi, a London advertising and public relations firm, has expressed interest in buying his lobbying organization for as much as $18 million. But the deal has been put on hold, and there are persistent reports that Saatchi has called it off. --By George J. Church. Reported...
...contortions were prompted by the fact that on May 20 a new Trident submarine is due to slip into the sea off Connecticut. Its 24 ballistic missiles would put the U.S. over the SALT II ceiling. Although Reagan once called that treaty "fatally flawed," he again decided to preserve the informal agreement by both superpowers to abide by its provisions; he ordered that two older Poseidon subs be scrapped. SALT's critics, most notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, urged that the old subs be mothballed and kept ready as a protest against alleged Soviet breaches. But violating SALT II would...
...Reagan's decision to accelerate work on the 38,000-lb. Midgetman was designed to please strategists who favor the small mobile missiles. Their reasoning: compared with the Minuteman and the new MX, the truck-carried Midgetman will be less vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike and less destabilizing because it cannot threaten a knockout blow of its own. Many in the Pentagon, however, would like to put more warheads on the Midgetman and make it larger. Hence Reagan's decision to order study of a possible Mobileman missile, carrying as many as three warheads. Adding warheads, opponents protest, will...