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Tiger netman Tim Main used a strong arsenal of passing shots to knock off Crimson Captain Peter Palandjian at second singles, 6-2, 6-3, giving Princeton a quick 2-0 advantage...
...since Geneva. On the other hand, U.S. officials regard the present diplomatic process as fragile. Apart from the question of whether progress on vital issues is really possible, there is the fact that the U.S. must decide shortly on whether to continue to abide by the restraints on nuclear arsenals imposed by the unratified SALT II agreement. A new Trident submarine, equipped with 24 ballistic missiles, is scheduled to begin sea trials on May 20. The vessel's entry into the U.S. arsenal would mean going over the ceilings set by the treaty. As Reagan reiterated in his midweek press...
Pentagon analysts believe that the Soviets are embarked on a decade-long strategy to reduce the vulnerability of their nearly 1,400 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the heart of their nuclear arsenal. By the mid-1990s, these weapons will be either ensconced in "superhardened" underground silos or based on mobile platforms that are difficult to locate and target. Even the large, multiple-warhead SS-X-24 missile, says SMP, will be deployed first on mobile rail cars, possibly by late this year. The U.S. has only been studying the possibility of developing a mobile missile, the single-warhead Midgetman...
...systems since the Colorado department of health warned them in February not to drink the water unless it is boiled for five minutes. Reason: traces of TCE were in the supply. In an unusual gesture, the U.S. Army, conceding that some of the contaminants seeped from its Rocky Mountain Arsenal, agreed to put up $1 million for a tempo- rary purification system. Assistance also came from the Coors Co. of Golden, which gave away 2,200 cases of its famed Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water to thirsty residents...
...advocates of increasing the Midgetman's size actually do not want the missile but hope to divert funds to the MX. Amid the confused crossfire, Washington is in danger of losing sight of the basic strategic issue involved: a small mobile missile can help make America's land-based arsenal more secure while at the same time making the nuclear balance more stable...