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...called on the government to stop supporting the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), calling it a usless program...
...discussed efforts to simulate Dukakis' universal health care plan with a plan of his own to give the middle class the opportunity to "buy into" medicare. And he has seemingly backed down on Reagan's committment to go ahead full throttle with both research and deployment of SDI. In fact, both candidates have adopted strikingly similar positions on SDI which stress research, with deployment contingent upon further scientific developments...
Having slain the ERA, Schlafly is now taking on new dragons. She heads the Eagle Forum, a conservative women's political group with 80,000 members and she's working on "about a dozen political issues right now, including the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and educational issues...
Reagan envisions the Strategic Defense Initiative as an impregnable, invulnerable shield that will end forever the specter of nuclear war but that will also do away with nuclear deterrence. Bush is more realistic: he thinks the feasibility of SDI has yet to be proved. He favors research but not early deployment. In his Chicago speech, Bush carefully stopped short of prejudging whether a full-scale SDI would make sense. While vowing not to leave America "defenseless" against ballistic missiles, he stressed less grandiose possibilities than a full-scale SDI, such as using its benefits to counter the threat of shorter...
...especially in a time of tight defense budgets, is which strategic programs to pursue. The B-1 bomber and the Strategic Defense Initiative suffer from serious technical problems. To question these programs is evidence of Dukakis' good judgment. On the other hand, cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber and an SDI program limited to research and development make sense. Dukakis supports all three...