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...Jackson has spoken more than any other candidate on the need to divest from South Africa and to wage an effective war on drugs. Yet other aspects of his foreign policy agenda remain highly suspect. Jackson says he will scrap a number of weapons systems, such as the MX, Midgetman, and Trident D-5 missiles, and two new aircraft carriers. He would also withdraw up to half of the U.S. troops stationed in Europe. Based on his support for the P L O and on his past anti-Semitic remarks, one must wonder to what extent Jackson will honor this...
...joke among the press corps is, How do you tell Al Gore from his Secret Service protection? Answer: He's the stiff one. In private, he is funny and irreverent, a good mimic and storyteller. In the right setting he will debate not only the virtues of the Midgetman missile, but whether the Beatles were a better group than the Rolling Stones (yes, he says...
...wasteful proliferation of large-scale weapons systems. A raft of new, expensive hardware is coming out of research, ready to go into production. One package of eight strategic systems (total cost: at least $250 billion) includes the Stealth bomber and three missile systems: the submarine-launched D-5, the Midgetman and the Peacekeeper (formerly MX). Congress should seriously reconsider whether all these different weapons are necessary...
...attacked Reagan's Strategic DefenseInitiative, calling it a costly fantasy, and saidthe nation should strenghten its conventionaldefense capabilities before investing in a $50billion program for the Midgetman missle...
...launched this month. The complex compromise, reached at a secret National Security Council meeting, seemed to have something for each of the warring factions in the Administration: though it preserved SALT II for the moment, it also accelerated work on the small mobile missile known as the Midgetman and ordered a study of the larger, multiwarhead Mobileman missile sought by the Pentagon...