Word: orbital
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...some cases even retargeted, by remote control from the Strategic Air Command's airborne command post, Looking Glass, which has a dual-key system. The firing could also be done automatically by the Emergency Rocket Communication System, a series of ultra-high-frequency radio packs launched into orbit in lieu of warheads by special iCBMs. If a submarine commander were cut off from communications, and if he were convinced that a nuclear war had begun, he would have no authority to fire his missiles?but he would have the capability...
Yesterday, the space shuttle Columbia rocketed into orbit. Today, it's the Harvard men's tennis team's turn...
...conquest by leftist rebels would have a falling-domino effect on the fragile democratic government in neighboring Honduras as well as the insurgency-threatened rightist regime in Guatemala. Haig's ultimate fear is that the entire region, from Mexico to Panama, might fall into the Soviet orbit, which would not only threaten America's vital security interests, but would also show the world that the U.S. is unable to contain the spread of Communism even in its own backyard...
France has maintained friendly relations with Nicaragua out of the conviction that such sympathy will help keep the country from moving into the Soviet orbit. Despite U.S. dismay, it has even sold "defensive" weapons to the Sandinista government. Reagan raised this issue when President François Mitterrand visited Washington last week. Said Reagan: "We discussed all facets of it." Mitterrand said that the warm and cordial meeting was too short to resolve any disputes over Central America. Explained Mitterrand later: "Our analysis is different from the start. I think these people must come out of the economic misery...
Webb said the State Department is pressing Congress for funds to develop two orbiting laner stations which would control space and prevent spacecraft from leading earth orbit. "We are facing an extraordinary situation where, for the first time in history, a frontier may be closed off." Webb said...