Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight-page, xeroxed booklet made its appearance on campus just a few days after the Lampoon reportedly spray painted the words "GARGOYLE RULES!!" on its Castle...
...related series of bizarre events last week preceeded the debut of the booklet. First signs of the Gargoyle began to appear when "comp" posters mocking the Lampoon were posted on campus kiosks. The posters invited all students to attend an introductory meeting of the magazine at 21 South St.--the address of the Harvard Advocate...
Concerning the technologies specifically involved in Star Wars, the booklet concludes that the Soviet effort "represents a far greater investment of plant space, capital and manpower" than the American SDI. It provides only one partial budgetary comparison: Soviet efforts to develop laser beams as warhead-killing weapons "would cost roughly $1 billion per year (to duplicate) in the U.S." That would be about triple the $340 million the U.S. spent on SDI laser development in fiscal 1985. The booklet does present some tantalizing, and disturbing, tidbits of more specific information. Samples...
...booklet estimates that several types of potential Soviet missile- killing weapons could be ready for deployment by the middle or late 1990s or after the year 2000. That does not differ greatly from the optimistic timetable for deploying comparable elements of an American Star Wars defense. The booklet also rather grudgingly concedes that in one vital area of Star Wars gear -- sensors to detect missiles and warheads across thousands of miles of space, as well as computers to aim lasers, particle beams or whatever -- "technologies . . . are currently more highly developed in the West than in the Soviet Union...
...event, Cameron asked students to pick up packets of his pamphlets before leaving, but only three paid for the booklet...