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...only did he hurt his leg," the well-meaning color commentator said, "but he hurt his hand at home fooling around with his brother...
Sophomore Dehan Chan started the race quickly. Perhaps too quickly. The hamstring in his left leg cramped up. He had to start walking. "Bad news," he said...
Democratic honchos fear that the new rules will make it even more difficult for a candidate to wrap up the nomination before convention time and give Jackson a definite leg up in the 1992 race. Last week two white party | strategists, Thomas Donilon and Robert Beckel, circulated a paper that argues for a return to the previous rules. In a thinly veiled reference to Jackson, the report says the new system "rewards those candidates who have goals other than the nomination." D.N.C. chief Ron Brown has said he does not want to "reopen that can of worms," but by supporting...
...devastating retaliatory strike. Pursuing that strategy, the U.S. has built a formidable triad of strategic nuclear forces: land-based ICBMs in silos, sea- based missiles aboard submarines, and nuclear bombs carried by airplanes. But over the years, the increased accuracy of Soviet ICBMs has gradually threatened the land-based leg of the triad, which consists of 450 Minuteman IIs, each carrying a single warhead; 500 Minuteman IIIs tipped with three warheads; and 50 more modern MX's, each with ten warheads. The Administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan considered 30 or so ideas for rendering U.S. ICBMs...
Although many respected observers argue the case, it makes little sense to worry unduly about the vulnerability of the land-based leg of the triad when it accounts for only 20% of the 12,000 warheads in America's strategic nuclear arsenal. Even in the unlikely event that a first strike wiped out the entire American land-based missile force, the U.S. could still obliterate the Soviet % Union with a fraction of the 5,300 warheads on its modern missile submarines and the 4,700 on its bombers. Though the first operational test last week of a Trident II missile...