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...chances are that one of the initial decisions to be announced will involve intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nation's land-based missile force???1,052 Minuteman and Titan missiles stored in silos scattered across seven states?is widely feared to be vulnerable to a Soviet surprise attack. Reagan and Weinberger inherited from the Carter Administration a plan to shuttle 200 MX (Missile Experimental) launchers, carrying ten warheads each, among 4,600 shelters along a vast "drag strip" in Utah and Nevada...
...this century has a challenger overthrown an incumbent President of his own party. But Ted Kennedy thinks he is the natural force???indeed the only possible Democratic force???to fill that vacuum...
...excursion was to dramatize Israel's concern about security at a time when the Begin regime is under U.S. pressure to pull out of the occupied territories elsewhere, especially in the West Bank. Israeli military men say that they had to commit such a large force???elements of two divisions, plus considerable airpower?so as to be ready to take on the Syrians if they chose to send some of the 30,000 troops they have in Lebanon into the fray on the Palestinians' side. Nonetheless, the whole operation was open to question on several grounds...
...this first NSC meeting on the Mayaguez incident, and at sessions that were to follow, Kissinger and Schlesinger argued over how much force???in particular, how many Marines?the U.S. should be prepared to use to free the ship and its crew. Schlesinger urged that the U.S. should move cautiously to avoid overreacting, and should use only the minimum strength necessary to get back the ship and crew. But Kissinger maintained that the U.S. had to employ enough force to give the operation broad political impact in Asia, particularly as regards North Korea, which has lately sounded more belligerent toward...
When she is not singing, she is talking. Speech, no less than song, pours out of her with the impetus of a natural force???gossip and insights, shopping lists and philosophy, sly jokes and probing questions. Once, her physician told her that she needed a tetanus shot. "What will happen if I don't take it?" she asked. "You might not be able to talk for a few days," he said. "Quick," she cried, "give me the shot...