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The Pope's travel decisions will be made with the aid of two sagacious Vatican diplomats: Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli and Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, Secretary of the Council for Public Affairs (in effect the Vatican's foreign minister). As heavily as he is relying on anyone...
* The MX missile. Production of the MX continues even though the Administration has no plan for basing it. There is little chance that the Reagan team will devise a viable method of deployment--it spent several months last year trying to dream up an alternative to the Carter Administration's...
Suspect as the idea of basing public policy on grades and test scores--which notoriously reflect income level, race, and hometown as well as ability the most upsetting aspects of Bok's stance he deeper. It is bad enough that he as an educator, gives evidence of thinking in statistical...
The other options under study are even more problematic. "Hard Tunnel" would bury the missiles 3,000 ft. down inside mountains; the "Big Bird" scheme calls for a fleet of mammoth airborne MX launchers. With the more far-fetched "Orbital Basing," MX warheads would be put into orbit only after...
The latest leading contender among basing schemes is "Dense Pack." The idea is to build, say, 200 underground silos on several 20-sq.-mi. parcels of military land. Since only 20 missiles would be allotted to each 200-silo cluster, scores of empty silos would harmlessly draw Soviet warheads. One...