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...chances are that one of the initial decisions to be announced will involve intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nation's land-based missile force?1,052 Minuteman and Titan missiles stored in silos scattered across seven states?is widely feared to be vulnerable to a Soviet surprise attack. Reagan and Weinberger inherited from the Carter Administration a plan to shuttle 200 MX (Missile Experimental) launchers, carrying ten warheads each, among 4,600 shelters along a vast "drag strip" in Utah and Nevada...
Visually, the series was nearly always interesting, from its pictures of U.S. officeworkers wearing gas masks and rubber gloves while pecking away at typewriters during a chemical-warfare exercise to a shot of a live American MIRV (three nuclear warheads mounted on the nose cone of a Minuteman III missile). Understated ironies abounded. A fresh-faced American missileman exclaimed with Boy Scout enthusiasm that his task of getting ready to launch a Minuteman at a Soviet target gave him "more responsibility than I could obtain in a civilian world." Commenting on film showing a C-5A cargo plane losing...
UMass got back into the game with two scores at 9:56 and 4:45, but "Frannie" and "Mo" doused the Minuteman fire with tallies...
...Minuteman sue Caples cut the Harvard' lead to 5-2 at 3:59, but a "Fran-to-Maureen" goal with 2:35 left and a "Maureen-to-Fran" tally with 1:12 remaining gave the Crimson a 7-2 advantage at the half...
...measures, we remain the military equal or superior to the Soviet Union," while in his annual report to Congress he requested new funds for such programs as the MX missiles, cruise and Pershing II missiles for Europe, Trident submarine missile systems, and an extremely accurate new warhead for the Minuteman III missiles...