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...limit of about 2,400 on the total number of missile launchers that each nation may deploy. That includes land-based and submarine-fired missiles; in addition, each long-range bomber would count as a single launcher, even though each plane can release more than one bomb. In a major concession, the Soviets dropped their demand that tactical nuclear weapons (both airborne and land-based) deployed with NATO forces in Europe be counted as launchers...
...limit would mean that the Soviets would have to phase out about 100 launchers, since they are now estimated to have some 2,500. This includes 1,618 ICBMS, 740 seaborne missiles and 150 bombers. For the U.S., a slight increase in launchers would be permitted. The U.S. now has about 2,200, including 1,054 land-based ICBMs, 656 submarine-fired missiles and 500 strategic bombers. Within the overall limit, each side would be able to alter the mix of its types of weapons...
...missile that can deliver up to eight individual warheads. The U.S. now has a huge advantage in MIRV missiles. By next year it will have deployed 1,046 MIRVS, including 550 Minuteman III missiles and 496 Poseidon missiles in 31 submarines. It should approach the 1,300 limit when ten new Trident submarines, each carrying 24 MIRV missiles, are completed in the mid-1980s...
According to Harvard Food Services employees, a similar sugar panic has hit Harvard students. Joseph T. Beatty, acting assistant manager of the Dudley House dining room, said yesterday that packaged sugar has been placed next to the cash register so the cashier could limit the number of packets people take...
Even Cohen admits that there is a limit to what he can accomplish. "You don't want your psych professor sounding like Henny Youngman," he says. "That would be too jarring...