Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traveling 8,000 miles and dropping their warheads within 100 yards of a target. The first ones will be ready by 1986. But the President scuttled the much criticized "shell game" plan, first proposed by former President Jimmy Carter. Under that scheme, also known as the "race track" or "drag strip" option, 200 MXs would be shuttled periodically among 4,600 shelters in Utah and Nevada to keep the Soviets guessing. Said Reagan: "No matter how many shelters we might build, the Soviets can build more missiles, more quickly and just as cheaply...
...With the drag strip dumped, Weinberger preferred simply developing the smaller, so-called common missile-it could be fired from submarines or planes -rather than the more accurate MX; he then switched to a preference for basing the MX temporarily in C-5A transport planes. The wrangling dragged on for months, with the White House growing frustrated over Weinberger's dithering. Finally, Reagan chose to house the MX temporarily in the Titan missile silos while other options are studied further...
...their way to the Southeast Expressway by using Appleton. Many weekday afternoons since then, the once-tranquil street has looked like some thing out of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, and during the rest of the day, when the wide, one-way street is lightly traveled, like a drag strip. Next spring, things should begin to change for the citizens along Appleton Street. For one city block on the four-block-long street, Appleton will be the site of a ground-level experiment that could presage a new era in unscrambling the agonizing mesh of big-city residential traffic...
...base 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil as a deterrent to the Soviet arsenal of mobile, multiwarhead SS-20 missiles, Washington pledged to start discussions with Moscow on a mutual whittling down of their theater nuclear forces (T.N.F.) on the Continent. The talks promise to drag on for years, with difficult prospects for agreement. Nonetheless, by at least signaling their willingness to discuss limits on their strategic armories, the U.S. and the Soviet Union may placate an extremely jittery European gallery. Said one State Department official: 'The Europeans would have screamed bloody murder if these talks...
BEFORE JOAN CRAWFORD died in 1976, she cut both of her adopted children out of her will. One of these children, Christina Crawford, vowed to take revenge on her mother. So she wrote a book called Mommie Dearest, which explains what a drag it was to grow up as the daughter of one of America's all-time favorite movie stars. Revenge in this case must have been particularly sweet, for not only was the book a bestseller, but Paramount Pictures also decided to make a movie...