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President Reagan is leaning
reviving the Carter admi-
tration’s land-based MX missile
but the Pentagon’s top en-
eersaid Tuesday it must be de-
ded by an anti-missile system
will be “nonsurvivable.”
White House spokesman Larry
sakes told reporters in Santa
, Calif., Monday that
has made some prelimin-
decisions on the MX basing
e and whether to go ahead, as
lected, with anew B-l bomber.
During the 1980 campaign,
was critical of the Carter
inistration’s plan to base the
short for “experimental mis-
the deserts of Nevada and
The Carter plan involved dig-
g4,600 shelters in Nevada and
and shuttling 200 missiles
, „ . ong them in a “shell game” in-
’ ded to shield their exact loca-
ffom the Soviets. Propo-
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mgeles. Sti lts 0 fth e MX say it is needed to
laeketeaii m ( er vulnerability of the
ahng thevtij sen t u.'s. land-based missile
to a Soviet first strike.
Today, Richard DeLauer, de
fense undersecretary for research
and engineering, told a breakfast
meeting of reporters in Washing
ton no decision has been made on
any key defense issues by the
president or the Pentagon.
DeLauer said Defense Secret
ary Caspar Weinberger “believes
that an undefended MPS (multi
ple shelter system) is non
survivable” no matter how many
silos are built, a statement with
which he agreed.
DeLauer said the “shell game”
system would in time prove vul
nerable as the Soviets increase the
number of their missiles and the
number of nuclear warheads each
can carry.
Survivability of U.S. missiles,
he said, would involve a defense
— an anti-ballistic missile, cur
rently limited by a treaty with the
Soviets that is up for renewal next
year.
DeLauer said it was not for him
to suggest abrogation of the ABM
treaty as this would be a political
decision, but “it is hard to build a
survivable land-based system
without a defense.”
DeLauer also appeared to rule
out putting the MX on a proposed
“Big Bird” aircraft that could re
main aloft for up to two days — a
project still on the drawing board
and recently promoted by Wein
berger.
He said Weinberger wants to
delay a decision on the MX basing
mode until a complete defense
package can be worked out.
The basing plan is opposed by
many of Reagan’s political allies in
Utah and Nevada, including Sen.
Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., Reagan’s
closest congressional confidant.
The Utah-based Mormon Church
also is opposed.
But the president apparently
has been convinced it is the only
way to go and there is now little
talk of the airborne option recent
ly promoted by Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger.
Strong criticism of the airborne
concept from the Air Force, mem
bers of Congress and other mem
bers of the administration appa
rently shifted it to the back
burner.
Reagan met in Los Angeles last
week with Sen. John Tower, R-
Texas, chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, who
favors the land-based approach.
After the meeting, Tower said the
airborne proposal no longer was
under serious consideration.
Speakes, without tipping the
president’s hand, said he would
not dispute Tower’s comment.
Reagan will meet today with
Weinberger and budget director
David Stockman, but their discus
sions are expected to focus more
on the 1983 and 1984 defense
budgets.
Meantime, Speakes also said
Reagan will “do whatever is neces
sary" to ensure Congress accepts
his proposed sale of AW ACS radar
planes and other military hard
ware to Saudi Arabia.
Speakes said Reagan is ex
pected to discuss the matter with
Israeli Prime Minister Menacham
Begin, who strongly opposes the
sale, during discussions Sept. 9 in
Washington.
Reagan plans to remain at Ran
cho del Cielo until Sunday, when
he will fly back to Los Angeles. He
will leave Los Angeles Sept. 2 and
make an overnight stop in Chicago
for two speech-making engage
ments before arriving back in
Washington.
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1VASHINGTON —Sen. Harri-
A. Williams Jr., D-N.J.,
ired in the government’s
scam investigation, vows to
theispt a committee recommenda-
that he be the first senator
mts ce the Civil War to be expelled.
"I certainly feel in my heart and
low in my heart I have not done
Bu Ahing that warrants resignation
expulsion,” Williams said Mon-
■eii i after the Senate Select Com-
ttee on Ethics unanimously re
mended his expulsion.
Harrison, 61, a member of the
nate for 23 years, was dejected
the vote, but heartened by the
id’s call to delay a vote by the
■oil [Senate pending completion of
trial appeal.
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ances might still arise in that tri
bunal,” said Williams, who main
tains he was the victim of federal
entrapment.
Chairman Malcolm Wallop, R-
Wyo., said members of his panel
did not enjoy voting to expel their
colleague, but declared, “This
committee has made a fair judg
ment.”
In a formal statement, the six-
member committee said:
“The Ethics Committee unani
mously finds, based on the evi
dence before it, Senator Williams’
conduct (in Abscam) was ethically
repugnant to the point of warrant
ing his expulsion from the U.S.
Senate.”
Williams, with his wife Jeanette
at his side, talked with reporters in
the same room in which the ethics
panel had spent seven hours de
bating his fate.
He said he was grateful for the
recommended delay in the vote
by the full Senate, saying it would
afford him an opportunity “to
show my innocence.”
The committee, in its state
ment, noted Williams is challeng
ing his conviction on due process
grounds in U.S. District Court in
New York. District Judge George
Pratt is expected to rule in the
proceeding in October.
Williams, former chairman of
the Senate Labor Committee, was
found guilty May 1 on nine counts
of bribery and conspiracy.
In response to speculation he
might resign rather than face an
expulsion vote, Williams said: “I
have indicated I am not going to
resign. I am going to advance ev
ery opportunity that is before me
to show clearly my innocence.”
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