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The largest strategic missile in the U.S. arsenal, the MX has sparked one controversy after another over four Administrations (see box). The latest rescue effort waged in its behalf stems from a compromise reached last year with a group of House Democrats led by Les Aspin, the new (since January...
In a more direct effort to squeeze the Nicaraguan government, the U.S. has opposed a proposal by the Inter-American Development Bank, a lending institution supported by 43 nations, to grant a $58 million loan to that country. Secretary of State George Shultz personally expressed "strong opposition" to the loan...
Even optimists in the Administration expect it to take years to bring the Soviet Union around to the President's vision. Meanwhile the Administration will have an almost equally difficult task overcoming the skepticism of domestic critics, who doubt that Star Wars will work and who fear that the program...
The ACSR has also not concluded whether it will reconsider or vote again on the group's recommendation last Spring to divest of companies in South Africa.
This summer's ceremony to unfurl the miles of banner will culminate an ongoing grassroots effort to achieve an underground nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union and a binding nuclear freeze resolution in Congress. According to Carol Grodzins, chairperson of the Massachusetts Nuclear Freeze Committee, the banner statement...