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...cook makeshift meals before pushing off into the rattlesnake-infested canyons leading toward San Ysidro, Calif., and points north. Two dozen agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), deployed in Dodge Ram trucks on surrounding hillsides, squinted through binoculars to count the aliens and prepare to intercept them...
...Honduras and El Salvador. The mission is to disrupt the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. Pentagon officials stressed that the U.S. ships would remain outside Nicaraguan waters, pro viding only radar assistance to Salvadoran and Honduran naval patrols that attempt to intercept the arms smugglers. Nonetheless, congressional staffers in Washington decried the exercise as "yet another step" toward direct U.S. involvement in a Central American conflict...
...occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?" In December, with no fanfare, Reagan approved $26 billion over the next five years for research into a Strategic Defense Initiative...
This system, known as an ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) system, has been a favorite of the Administration ever since Reagan made his March 1983 "star wars" speech. In his address the President held out the prospect of an America living secure in the knowledge that it "could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies...
April 7--Students intercept correspondence between President Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford indicating the administration's plan to delay implementation of the Faculty vote. Reports are circulated that Pusey has promised that the Corporation "will do everything possible to keep ROTC...