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...train (The Minuteman) will depart from Boston's South Station at 8 a.m. Saturday morning and will arrive in New Haven at 10:55 a.m. The return trip is scheduled to leave Union Station at 6:52 p.m. and arrive in Boston at 9:40 p.m. that night...
...however, the diplomats at Geneva have been deadlocked, primarily by their inability to agree on the method by which the number of MIRVs will be calculated. The nub of the problem is Moscow's new SS-18 monster missile. More than six times as powerful as the U.S. Minuteman III, the SS-18 can carry a single warhead delivering a 50-megaton explosive punch (creating a fireball 36 miles in diameter and blasting a 300-ft.-deep hole in granite), or it can be fitted with up to eight MIRVs...
...AGENDA for the Bicentennial is now becoming clear. President Ford's pilgrimage to Boston's Old North Church to Concord's Minuteman Statue, and to Lexington's Green was certainly only the first of a series of flash visits that will commemorate the valiant efforts of the hard-working colonial farmers who left their small plots to fight for independence from the British. As April turns into May and June and the hot days of summer, the executive caravan will follow its pompish route through the cities and towns of the Eastern Seaboard, invoking the heroic patriotism and noble sacrifice...
They are also working on an SS-18 missile that can deliver up to eight individual warheads. The U.S. now has a huge advantage in MIRV missiles. By next year it will have deployed 1,046 MIRVS, including 550 Minuteman III missiles and 496 Poseidon missiles in 31 submarines. It should approach the 1,300 limit when ten new Trident submarines, each carrying 24 MIRV missiles, are completed in the mid-1980s...
...Minuteman whittled at the Harvard margin by working the ball inside to exploit Banks's absence. Lou Silver responded to the UMass charge by pouring in 14 first-half points and the half was deadlocked...