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...dramatic 7-6 Minuteman tournament quarterfinal win came just after Harvard had erased a 4-1 halftime deficit and had masterfully taken a 6-5 lead with but seven minutes to play. But when the favored UMass squad, seeded fourth in the national tourney (the Crimson was not seeded), tied the score at 6-6 seconds later, it set the stage for some Minuteman heroics and some Crimson hysterics...
...fact, Harvard couldn't manage to score until Jennifer White sneaked one past UMass goalie Rita Hubner with just 3:52 remaining in the first half, tying the score at 1-1. But three quick Minuteman tallies--including two in the final 30 seconds-put the Crimson on the short end of a 4-1 halftime score...
...Crimson readily admits it will take a stellar performance to knock off the 11-1-1 Minuteman squad. Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder says her underdog squad will need to take as many shots as possible against the defensive-minded UMass team and goalie Rita Hubner, widely considered the finest in the nation...
...Strategic Forces brought forth its 26-page final report last week. There were few surprises. The blue-ribbon panel, appointed last January by President Reagan as a last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range, like the MX's, of 8,000 miles...
...purely defensive purposes of deterrence, it would have sufficed to put the old-line Minuteman aboard the improved basing system--saving billions of dollars. And now a second presidential commission on the MX basing system has suggested that the new missiles be placed in the same Minuteman silos whose vulnerability prompted concern in the first place. How, then, is or was the MX necessary to preserve the U.S. nuclear deterrent...