Word: lande
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...this continues to the point where it clouds "the clear invulnerability of our strategic deterrent," said the President, he will not hesitate to order "fullscale deployment and development" of an advanced Trident II submarine-launched missile and the M-X missile system. The M-X would make land-based ICBMS elusive targets by moving them through underground tunnels...
Conceding that U.S. land-based missiles could become "increasingly vulnerable to a Soviet first strike," the President nevertheless confirmed the continuing commitment to the three-legged "triad" (air- and sea-launched and land-based strategic missiles) of the American nuclear deterrent. Any such Soviet strike against the Minuteman missiles, Carter warned, "would amount to national suicide for the Soviet Union; but, however remote, it is a threat against which we must constantly be on guard...
South Africa has long presented a dilemma to U.S. companies: profits on loans, sales and investments in the land of apartheid can be high, but so can the costs in bad publicity. Last week the spotlight fell on two companies that had reacted to the dilemma in widely contrasting ways. In New York, Citicorp, holding company for the U.S.'s second largest bank. Citibank, let out the word that it had stopped all lending to the South African government and government-owned companies. In New Haven. Conn., Olin Corp., the owner of the Winchester Group, which...
Maksoud said the Israelis used the recent Palestinian raid as a pretext for acquisition of land south of the Litani River that Israel has long coveted...
Route 28 continues to Mashpee, the home of the Mashpee Indians. Recently, the Indians sued the town to get back much of the land; the outcome is still uncertain. The Wampanoag Indian Museum in Mashpee is a good place to pick up Indian history or gossip about the suit...