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...what to cut is bound to be embarrassing to Reagan. About the only certainty is that the reductions in planned increases will not affect the President's long-delayed decisions to go ahead with production of B-1 bombers and to settle on a basing method for the MX missile. One White House aide spells out the likely consequences of the spending reduction: "The savings will come from stretchouts and slowdowns in [weapons] purchasing, reduced training exercises and scaling down the number of ships the Pentagon would like to build." Those are exactly the sorts of actions for which...
There is no sense in cutting ammunition and training in order to build an MX missile. That would be a real fight...
Weinberger is expected to present his list of possible military cuts to the President at a meeting tentatively set for this week. Since Pentagon spending is linked to decisions on what kind of MX missile system to develop and which new strategic bomber to build, Reagan may reveal his long-awaited decisions on those programs at the same time...
...Approve the production of 100 MX missiles and their deployment in 1,000 shelters on land in Nevada owned by the military. This would be a scaled-down version of former President Carter's plan to deploy 200 missiles in 4,600 shelters scattered through Utah and Nevada...
Bush could close the window of vulnerability on the Orioles by stocking his roster with a set of MX ballplayers--guys who are constantly switching positions and spots in the batting order so the opposition can't formulate a cohesive game plan. New York fans would swizzle tax-free beer and hot dogs, except for the underprivileged school children, whose Crackerjack portions would be reduced to compensate for the loss in tax revenue. Best of all, everyone associated with the team would get to trash those tacky polyester uniforms and get into some chinos and oxford cloth...