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TRIDENT. The original program called for putting the first Tridents in the water in 1980 at a cost of $1,350,000,000 each, but the Navy asked to move the launch up to 1978 after the Soviets began deploying their advanced Delta submarines. The Armed Services Committee approved the Navy's request for $1.5 billion for Trident in fiscal 1974 over the objections of New Hampshire Senator Thomas McIntyre, chairman of the subcommittee on research and development. To avoid cost overruns, he proposed sticking to the target date of 1980, which would cut the appropriation...
After his inauguration three years ago, Allende had stood on the small balcony outside his office in the palace to launch a great experiment. While thousands of his supporters cheered in the plaza below, he announced a unique undertaking: he intended to lead Chile along a democratic road to socialism. Last week the balcony still stood, although the palace was a smoldering ruin. So was Allende's Marxist vision for his country...
...would man, or some distant intelligent beings, ever launch a panspermia project? To demonstrate technological capability, say Crick and Orgel-or, more probably, out of "some form of missionary zeal...
...more uncomfortable position." To reassure him and other Southeast Asians the U.S. plans to keep some of its bombers and fighters on bases in Thailand and on Guam. This is close enough for a quick reaction, should Congress ever authorize the President to respond if the Communists some day launch another major military offensive...
Waiting Game. No one is ready to predict what the insurgents-inside and outside Phnom-Penh-will do next. The initiative is all theirs, military observers agree, and they have a range of options: they could launch a frontal attack on the capital, or cause a slow strangulation by cutting off its supplies, or even stage a Tet-like uprising from within. Although Lon Nol has 75,000 troops in and around Phnom-Penh (with insurgent forces estimated at 20,000), fewer than 12,000 are regarded as battle effective. Thousands of others perform headquarters tasks or serve as bodyguards...