Word: minuteman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fourth, the program modernizes the land-based missile force by developing the MX missile, which can carry ten warheads, and by initially deploying at least 100 of these missiles in Titan and Minuteman silos "that will be reconstructed for much greater hardness to nuclear effects." Research and development will be pursued on three "promising, long-term, basing options for MX" with a selection of "one or more" by 1984: continuous Air-borne Patrol Aircraft; Ballistic Missile Defense of silos; Deep Underground Basing. In my opinion, none of these is satisfactory: the aircraft, because it patrols over the ocean would...
...Minuteman coach Ken Banda agrees. "The game will be decided at midfield. We have a good defense and so do they. Last year we had the better team, but this year I think it's pretty even...
...Crimson did generate some offense after the first Minuteman tally. Forwards Jennifer White and Andrea Mainelli passed very effectively inside the circle, setting up Tania Huber in front of the net. But Huber's shot went wide...
...Deer Hunter DeNiro is the Minuteman within us. He makes Americans think in the primitive terms on which our country was founded. Somehow he gets at us, and brings all our liberal thinking back to war games and heroism and the call of the wild...
Reagan's move, announced last week after months of speculation and study, calls for the placement of 100 advanced MX missiles in existing silos for Titan and Minuteman rockets. The plan replaces the so-called "shell game" proposal advocated by the Carter administration, in which 200 MX missiles would be shuttled among 4600 new missile shelters...