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Congressman Duncan Hunter, a California Republican and author of the military provision, argues that the Pentagon has exaggerated the dimensions of the interdiction effort. "If we can't intercept a couple of Cessnas per hour," says Hunter, "we better forget about SDI." A Senate version drafted late last week calls on the military to give support but leaves its role to the option of the Administration. Majority Leader Robert Dole predicted the Senate would act within a week or so, giving conferees from both chambers time to iron out differences on military deployments, spending levels and other issues...
...strong defense, which is not the conclusion we expected to come to." Yet even the hard-line statements of Chervov and Petrovsky left room for a U.S. official in Riga to say, "If you listen closely, you can still hear them saying they are extremely eager to restrict SDI and they may be willing to pay a significant price in arms control...
While much of his attention at a Kennedy School of Government symposium on September 5 focused on an airline hijaking in Pakistan, Secretary of Defense Casper W. Weinberger '38 took time to praise the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense initiative (SDI) as the best, realistic deterrent to nuclear...
...secretary said the "moral difference" between the two superpowers forces the U.S. to develop SDI and bolster its military arsenal to make it clear to the Soviets that "it would be in their national interest not to fight and not to launch an attack...
Forsberg, however, criticized SDI as more a complement than deterrent to the threat of nuclear war, "which could conceivably convince the Soviet fear of a U.S. first strike...