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What happened yesterday, however, was best summed up in one image--that of Minuteman forward Kristen Bowsher lying sprawled on the grass, with Crimson defenders Brigitte Duffy and Lori Barry...
...really disappointed that we played soccer on this field," Minuteman Coach Kalekeni Banda said. "It's bush league and un-professional. People care about this game and we're playing on a practice field...
...known as breakout, the capacity of one side suddenly to increase its offensive force and intimidate the enemy. The issue will become an important factor as the U.S. gradually moves away from a land-based ICBM force made up of multiple-warhead missiles in underground fixed silos (like the Minuteman) and relies more on mobile single-warhead missiles (the proposed Midgetman). Such weapons would be vulnerable to a barrage of enemy warheads, and very high levels of throw weight translate into an increased ability to conduct barrage attacks...
...dived with the Trident submarine Henry M. Jackson off the Bahamas as the vessel made final preparations to join the Pacific Fleet, strapped himself into the cramped confines of a B-52 on a simulated bombing strike out of South Dakota's Ellsworth Air Force Base and inspected a Minuteman training launch capsule, also in South Dakota. Van Voorst's report...
...Minuteman arsenal is scheduled to be augmented or partly replaced, beginning in 1986, by a new generation of MX "Peacekeeper" missiles. Congress has so far funded 42 of the new missiles, each of which will carry ten warheads with at least 300 kilotons of explosive power apiece, compared with the Minuteman III's three warheads, each packing up to a 330-kiloton punch. Reagan would like to build 100 MX's, but critics say its many warheads make the MX an inviting target for Soviet strategists and thus a destabilizing weapon...