Word: mx
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Even though the MX missile is coming under heavy criticism from Governors and other groups in the Western states [April 7], it should be deployed. Since Viet Nam, the U.S. has neglected its obligation to its military institutions. The MX would not only end the vulnerability of our present ICBM force, but would also make the leaders in the Kremlin hesitate before undertaking any more aggressive moves somewhere in the world...
...MX missile system being planned for Utah and Nevada is nuclear madness in its galloping stages...
...meeting this week, trying to decide what is and isn't important. Remedial reading? Probably not. Elementary school science courses? Libraries? Guidance programs? It's like the old camp song, where the one guy rolls over, and the guy at the other end of the bed falls out. The MX missile rolls over; you can wish foreign language instruction a fond au revoir. The balanced budget rolls over; out the other side plops special education programs for disabled youngsters...
Draper Laboratory designs prototype guidance mchanisms for MX, Cruise, and Trident missles, all first-strike weapons. Its major customers are the Air Force, Navy and the Department of Defense, Joseph F. O'Connor, executive assistant to the president of the lab, said yesterday...
After the Governors appeared in Washington, the Pentagon lost no time launching a counterattack. Testifying before the same House subcommittee, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown claimed that the MX would not increase irrigation problems, stating that once the system was built it would annually require no more water than the amount "consumed at twelve golf courses in the Greater Las Vegas area." During seven years of construction, the Air-Force would try to avoid disrupting the region by forbidding the estimated 25,000 to 50,000 workers to bring their families with them. This would obviate the need to build...