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Show fJouy supporfo nH.ii; The new young secretary of the Navy Tuesday threw his branch of the service behind the Air Force plan for deploying the MX missile mis-sile system. He said he supports basing the MX on land and he rejects the idea of MX under Navy administration, adminis-tration, with the nuclear hardware being carried through shallow water on submarines. 'Neither myself nor the Navy Is interested in having hav-ing the MX missile and don't feel it should be deployed from submarines,' said John Lehman, 38, until recently president of Abindon Corp. 'We support the Air Force position to base the advanced intercontinental ballistic missile system in the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada, as well as the sea based leg of the triad to meet the Soviet threat.' This comes two weeks after another sea based option op-tion for basing the MX suffered suf-fered a setback. Testifying Testify-ing before the Senate Armed Arm-ed Services Committee, Adm. Thomas D. Hayward, chief of naval operations, said there were problems with the proposal known as hydra launch, whereby missiles mis-siles might be fired from floating positions at sea. The Pentagon saidDefense Secretary Weinberger now doubts the feasibility ofbas-ing ofbas-ing the missile at sea. |