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...firing off 33 memos to aides on his first day. The memos suggested ways to cut the military budget by $2.8 billion. Among Brown's proposals: buying 72 rather than 108 F-15 fighters, building five instead of eight B-l bombers, and slowing production of the latest Minuteman III missile and development of still another intercontinental missile known as the MX. Brown was working 14-hour days and had no intention of slackening the pace in the near future...
FOUR DAYS PRIOR to the Texas primary, Ford authorized continued production of the Minuteman missile--including a new warhead for the missile--to the tune of nearly $380 million. Three months earlier, the Defense Department had discontinued Minuteman production, reporting that additional missile deployment would add little to national security and was in any case not worth the cost...
...fate of the Boston Minuteman franchise may be announced today as the NASL general meetings wind up in Minneapolis. Sterge failed to put up the required bond by October 11, although he says he is still interested in Boston soccer. There are several potential buyers floating around the Twin Cities, if the NASL gives up on Sterge. The possibility also exists that the league will move the Minutemen elsewhere...
Harvard upped the margin to two early in the second half. Matt Bowyer chipped a short pass toward the goal mouth. Acorn came streaking over from the left and fired the ball past the Minuteman netminder...
...Minuteman defense was forced to foul to stop the intense New York pressure, resulting in two direct kicks in three minutes for Pele. Usually one is enough for the "King," but a diving save by Harvard alumnus Shep Messing '72 on a banana shot to the far left corner made a second try necessary...