Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If Pentagon planners get their way the valleys throughout Nevada and Utah will be dotted with 200 asphalt oval tracks, 20 ft. wide and 10 to 15 miles long. The "race tracks," as the Pentagon calls them, will be traveled at 5 m.p.h. by the largest military vehicle ever built...
As an additional safeguard, every shelter will contain 96 tons of weights (about equal to the MX), which the TEL would pick up when it drops off a real missile. This would prevent Soviet sensors from discerning the change in the TEL's rumble that would be caused if...
If Carter okays the race track and Congress gives its approval, which seems likely, the first MXs should start moving along the ovals by 1986.
These showy moves were designed partly to attract more attention in Washington, and in that they succeeded. When the Indians asked for $600 million over ten years to finance CERT, Duncan said such a sum was quite proper and promised to see if the money could be supplied. He vowed...
Block the SALT treaty? "We'll fight it to the end," says Howard Phillips, 38, a husky Bostonian who heads one of the ultraconservative groups that are raising millions to oppose ratification. "In the long run we lose only if we fail to fight."