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...California. Wilkinson, director of U.S. Army effort known as "Homing Overlay Experiment," had good reason to hope for some insomnia in Moscow: his project scored its first success last week. A special interceptor rocket fired from Meek Island in the Kwajalein archipelago had struck the dummy warhead of a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that had been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California some 30 earlier. Military analyst described the collision, which pulverized both projectiles more than 100 miles above the earth's surface, as a major technological advance that would support President Reagan...
...build-down was based on a complicated set of equations with different constants assigned to different sorts of weapons. For example, a large Soviet warhead, like one on an SS-18, would count as a certain number of SWS's, a smaller ballistic warhead on an SLBM, a Minuteman III or even an MX would count as fewer SWS's. A bomber armed with cruise missiles would have a greater SWS total than one armed with bombs...
...result, American ICBMs are smaller and less numerous than the Soviets'. The mainstay of the U.S. ICBM force, 550 Minuteman IIIs, are classified as "light" ICBMs and have three warheads each, while the backbone of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces is made up of 308 "heavy" SS-18s, each able to carry ten warheads, and around 500 "medium" SS-17s and SS-19s, with four and six warheads respectively. The American MX, which is still under development as well as under heated debate, is about the size of the SS-19, but would have as many warheads...
...yesterday's contest, Harvard controlled the game from the outset but did not pull away for good until sophomore attackman Peter Follows scored with seconds remaining in the third quarter. Moving from behind the net, Follows burned a Minuteman defenseman and easily slipped the rubber past goalie Gerald Moreau for a 7-6 Crimson lead...
...Crimson could only manage one hit the entire afternoon--a single by freshman Lisa Rowning in the seventh inning of the first game. Righthanded Minuteman hurler Cathy Reed picked up a no-hitter as she blanked the Harvard batwomen in the second game...