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Union officials, questioned in the Sheraton Commander Hotel's Minuteman room before the meeting Friday, refused to answer questions...
Russia will now scrap its SS-18s and its highly capable SS-24s. In fact, said Yeltsin, he had already ordered the SS-18s taken off active status. The U.S. will dismantle its MX missiles and will bring its Minuteman III missiles down to one warhead apiece. The U.S. will also cut by more than half the number of warheads on submarine-based missiles...
With only 25 total shots (compared with 57 for Massachusetts), it was no surprise that Harvard had trouble scoring and could not take advantage of the inexperienced Minuteman goalie, freshman Tom Lopresti...
...would significantly favor the U.S. in numerical terms because the Soviets have far more of these monsters, such as the SS-18, which carries more than ten warheads. A MIRV ban would do away with existing U.S. missile systems like the ten-warhead MX and the triple-warhead Minuteman III. The cost of dismantling these existing systems would effectively cancel out the relatively small saving in operating costs. Saving: none...
...cliche about the U.S.S.R.: the place is a hopeless mess where nothing works, with the prominent and crucial exception of two institutions -- the armed forces and the KGB. A Kremlin that cannot put food on its people's tables can put an SS-18 warhead on top of a Minuteman silo in North Dakota, some 5,000 miles away. Even though 15% to 20% of the grain harvested on the collective farms rots or falls off the back of trucks before it reaches the cities, a Soviet-led blitzkrieg through West Germany would be a masterpiece of military efficiency...