Word: minuteman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reliever Chris Schindler started the seventh inning for the Crimson, got one quick out, but then gave up three straight hits. With the tying run at the plate, Jim Chenevey same in and struck out both pinch hitter Tony Szklany and Minuteman batting leader Todd Comeau to end the game...
...Crimson had jumped out to a lead in the first, when Mickey Maspons's two-out single to left scored Tony DiCesare from second, and brought Jim Depalo from first to third. When Vierra walked to lead them up, and Chris McAndrews took the first pitch for a ball, Minuteman starter Brett Valentini headed for the showers...
When the Pentagon detected irregularities in its audit of General Electric's contract to replace the warheads on Minuteman missiles, it did not file a civil suit. Instead, in an unusual move, it referred the case to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. Last week U.S. Attorney Edward Dennis Jr. announced that a federal grand jury in Philadelphia had returned an indictment against G.E. for allegedly defrauding the Air Force of more than $800,000. In a swift and stiff follow-up punch, the Pentagon declared that it was temporarily barring G.E. from any new military contracts. As if that...
...Fairfield, Conn.- based company, which in addition to the suspension faces a fine of more than $1 million if found guilty on all 108 counts of the indictment, denies there was any criminal wrongdoing. The alleged fraud occurred between January 1980 and April 1983 while the company was refurbishing Minuteman warheads. One of the contracts on the $47 million project included a "fixed price incentive"--that is, costs above a certain price were to be absorbed by the company. According to the indictment, when labor costs on that contract hit the ceiling, G.E. illegally shifted the overruns to other contracts...
Even if the Administration begins deploying the MX as scheduled by the fall of 1986, the missile will still serve only as a transition to other, less vulnerable weapons. A presidential commission headed by retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, which reluctantly recommended basing the MX in Minuteman silos for the near future, also concluded that the U.S. should begin immediately building a 1,000-unit force of single-headed Midgetman missiles, which will be mobile--and less easily targetable...