Word: abm
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Yaffe is opposing incumbent Republican Margaret Heckler. Mrs. Heckler, as Yaffe is fond of saying, "has voted on every side of every issue." She opposed ABM, but voted for the military appropriations bill containing ABM. She first voted for the appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but voted against it after President Nixon vetoed it, deciding finally that it was inflationary. Claiming to be a progressive, she also voted against the Hill-Burton hospital construction bill. Where Yaffe favors setting a fixed date for withdrawal from Vietnam, she opposes this, saying of the Nixon Vietnamization plan...
...Keith can be tied to the Administration. He is by far the most conservative member of the Massachusetts delegation. He supports ABM, defense bills, Nixon's vetoes, and has opposed a number of progressive pieces of legislation during his years in Congress. He barely survived a challenge in the Republican primary from State Senator William Weeks, who lost by only 1,000 votes...
Millions of Particles. The Moscow area has been ringed for the past four years by about 45 anti-missile rocket sites. But the latest test suggests that the Russians have now developed an ABM that employs the so-called asphalt-cloud concept. It could be installed before the U.S. has put any missile defenses of its own into operation...
...ABMs, including the proposed U.S. Safeguard system, work essentially the same way. High-speed rockets, usually nuclear-tipped, are exploded high above the atmosphere to damage or destroy incoming ICBMs. In the asphalt-cloud technique, the ABM disperses millions of particles in the path of enemy missiles. When the rockets plunge into the atmosphere, the highly combustible bits of asphalt that they have picked up ignite from frictional heat; the asphalt burns so rapidly and creates such great temperatures that the heat shields on the ICBMs are all but consumed. Then the missiles either burn up or are so deformed...
Installation of a cloud-type ABM system would be relatively simple and inexpensive for the Soviets. Many of their 10,000 surface-to-air missiles now deployed could be converted to ABM use. The Russians have already displayed their skill in spreading high-flying aerosols; in 1968, they blinded U.S. radar with a metallic "mist" during the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The U.S. has made only paper studies of cloud-type ABM systems, and as yet has no plans for any operational tests. Said a U.S. defense official of the Soviet system: "It's one of those better mousetraps that...