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Reagan made the bargaining-chip argument because he is concerned about securing congressional approval for the system. He hopes to patch together an uneasy alliance in support of the program made up of hawks who want the MX for its own sake and doves who want it so the U.S. can give it away. That ploy may well backfire. By implying that the U.S. might be able to live without the MX in certain circumstances after all, Reagan has produced a self-contradiction that weakens the case for the missile as indispensable, a fact congressional skeptics have quickly pointed...
...future, a portion of those Minuteman missiles could be replaced by MXs-in existing silos, rather than in some elaborate "protective/deceptive" basing plan. That might be necessary if the Soviets have not, in the meantime, agreed to significant cutbacks in their own land-based, silo-busting warheads. For the sake of deterrence, the U.S. needs a credible capability to attack hardened Soviet military targets. Therefore Congress should continue to fund the development of the MX 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...
...typical programmed celebration was the recent wedding of Koji Takahashi, 26, an architect, to Kazuko Hasegawa, 23, at Meiji Memorial Hall, Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan...
...really headed. Nemy is only one of a growing army of journalists singing the praises of affluence on the pages on some of the nation's leading periodicals. Newspapers that take a firm line against Reaganomics and the New Right on their editorial pages should, for consistency's sake, keep the social elitism off their lighter pages as well...
...three nuns to share the cavernous brick mansion he inherited from Cody, and prefers to drive his silver Oldsmobile himself, all in keeping with his notion of a no-frills clergy. Explains Bernardin: "I consider myself a servant first of the Lord, then a servant of others for the sake of the Lord...