The World - News from May 3, 1985
President Reagan’s “Star Wars” program “is the major concern to strategic policy-makers in either West or East,” the International Institute for Strategic Studies said in its annual report. The non-partisan, London-based institute suggested that “even if strategic defenses were to prove feasible, they could damage stability rather than strengthen it.” The debate over the Strategic Defense Initiative, as the “Star Wars” plan is formally called, “promises to be vigorous,” the institute said.
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