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Meanwhile, the tense and polarized public debate over arms control strategy continues. One side-typified by the grass-roots nuclear-freeze movement-argues that a sudden halt to development and production of nuclear weapons by both superpowers will markedly reduce the possibility of global nuclear war. The other side, led by the Reagan Administration, champions "deep cuts" in the nuclear arsenals as the basis for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks between Washington and Moscow. But it argues that a substantial further U.S. buildup is necessary to make the Soviets accept reductions...
...ADMINISTRATION," complained Representative Dave McCurdy (D-Okla.) recently of President Reagan's Nicaragua policy, "has been disingenuous in maintaining that the sole purpose of its covert assistance is to halt the flow of weapons...
...Reich says this will never happen. A depressed economy, he predicts, will force politicians to take stopgap measures to halt the erosion. In fact, politicians have already started on this road, instituting barriers to trade such as higher tariffs and measures like the domestic content bill. If the U.S. does not begin to work out a coherent industrial and trade policy, Reich envisions, the country will head down the projectionist path to world economic ruin...
...State Department spokesman repeated the Administration's fears that the bishops' hoped-for halt of nuclear deployment would diminish prospects for a major arms-reduction agreement with the Soviet Union. Whatever his private dismay, President Reagan mildly observed that the document "is a legitimate effort to do exactly what we're doing, and that is to try to find ways toward world peace...
...progress," the State Department said that the U.S. would stand by its commitment to exclude British and French nuclear forces from the Geneva negotiations. U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger went so far as to suggest that the tactic might be designed to bring the INF talks "to a halt...