Word: launching
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...cent in the last five years. Among those who have grappled with the problem, all feel strongly that action can only come by federally-directed policy priorities and resource allocation. Low-income housing cannot be funded by cities overburdened by their share of the so-called "launch-pad" function--injecting the poor into the social and economic mainstream of society. Even federally-funded non-market housing is fiscally undesirable to cities because the residents do not contribute to the tax base needed by cities under the present tax structure. Although the federal government is the only instrument potentially strong enough...
...surprise attack unless they were certain that the other side's capacity for a devastating nuclear counterstrike could be destroyed) By limiting the development and deployment of certain weapons, SALT negotiators have tried to preserve the strategic balance so that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could launch an atomic retaliation even after suffering a massive, surprise "first strike." In a sense, SALT aims at keeping the American and Soviet societies hostage to each other in order to make such a nuclear exchange unthinkable. This theory of deterrence is known, rather grimly, as mutual assured destruction. A secondary...
Although the Soviets trail in cruise technology, Pentagon experts estimate that the Russians could catch up in about five years. Moreover, the cruise could not be used to launch a surprise attack; its leisurely subsonic speed (for extreme long range: 400 m.p.h.) gives plenty of warning that it is on its way. But the cruise is a powerful deterrent to a first-strike Soviet attack. Both cheap and mobile, cruises can be deployed in such massive numbers across the U.S., in planes and at sea that it would be impossible for the Soviets to destroy them all. The surviving cruises...
...government has virtu ally wiped out one major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme Court building. Says one military expert: "The guerrillas are not as strong, but they will be dangerous for some time to come...
Press demonstrated additional versatility by his involvement in the 1970 experiment in which a spent Saturn rocket, used to launch an Apollo mission, was crashed onto the moon. The resulting impact, measured by seismographs left on the lunar surface by earlier missions, enabled Press and his fellow seismologists to determine the characteristics of the moon's crust. In 1974 Press led a delegation of U.S. scientists on a tour of Chinese earthquake research centers and returned with the amazing news that the country had an army of 10,000 scientists and 100,000 amateurs engaged in collecting earthquake data...