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...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...
Each of the 200 missiles would have its own oval "racetrack," ten to 15 miles long. Along every track would be 23 underground shelters. Playing a kind of shell game, a monstrous, 180-ft.-long TEL (transporter-erector-launcher) would laboriously haul the MX from one shelter to another. Or the TEL might leave the missile in place for a while and carry a dummy MX to another shelter or around the course. Watching from the sky, Soviet spy satellites could never be sure exactly where the missile was and hence would have to target all 23 shelters on each...
...MX tracks would be scattered over 45,000 sq. mi. of federally owned land in the Great Basin desert of Utah and Nevada. Matheson and List urged Congress to reconsider the sites because of the damage the project would cause the fragile ecosystem of the area. They were particularly concerned that the construction would increase an already severe water shortage. In addition, Matheson claimed, the invasion of the construction crews would change forever what he called "the chosen way of life" of people in the region's tiny rural communities. Beyond their plea to Congress, the Governors plan...
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...