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...After Minuteman leftfielder Doug Aylward had singled to left and been sacrificed to second, first baseman Dale Stone came up with one out and drilled a line drive to center. Santos-Buch corralled the shot and proceeded to double up Aylward, who was then somewhere in the vicinity of the third base coaching...
...Soviet and American nuclear arms. Such a treaty would, for instance, probably permit both sides to deploy about 2,200 nuclear-weapon launchers (including strategic bombers). Furthermore, it is not expected to cut the number of Soviet monster rockets, like the SS-18, which could threaten the U.S. Minuteman missiles. As a result, Washington is considering going ahead with the development of the sophisticated MX missile. The mobility of the MX, which may run on underground rails, will make it an elusive target for Soviet missiles, theoretically ensuring that it can survive to make a counterattack...
Conceding that U.S. land-based missiles could become "increasingly vulnerable to a Soviet first strike," the President nevertheless confirmed the continuing commitment to the three-legged "triad" (air- and sea-launched and land-based strategic missiles) of the American nuclear deterrent. Any such Soviet strike against the Minuteman missiles, Carter warned, "would amount to national suicide for the Soviet Union; but, however remote, it is a threat against which we must constantly be on guard...
...carry eight independently targetable warheads. Another Administration nemesis (also a Democrat), former SALT Negotiator Paul Nitze, has declared that by 1985, when SALT II would expire, the U.S.S.R. would be in a position to launch three times as many land-based nuclear warheads as the U.S., and the U.S. Minuteman missile system will be vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike. Says Nitze: "We are locked into inferiority, and I don't know...
Some of the newcomers are ideologues bent on saving white Rhodesia in its last hours of peril. The country now has embryonic chapters of both the John Birch Society and the American Nazi party. There is a bearded ex-Minuteman who claims he is still "on the lam from the feds" in the U.S. Another is an American peddler who spent months trying unsuccessfully to sell bulletproof vests. "Let's face it," says a longtime American res ident, "if they're losers in the States, they're going to be double losers out here. They all figure...