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Looking back on it though, I remember President Bush's late-February speech to the people at Raytheon who manufacture Patriot missiles (I happened to hear it live one night on Armed Forces radio). The President quoted Woodrow Wilson who said, "It takes 10,000 jobs...
...counting on Kevin Costner, America's No. 1 homegrown movie star, to lure audiences to what is at heart a high-voltage civics quiz. Though he doesn't necessarily agree with every notion floated in the film, Costner is happy to play front man for Stone. "Oliver's a patriot," he says. "And I believe with him that the impact of this movie will be liberating. Any part of the truth -- any discussion of what could be the truth -- can only make us freer...
Lehigh was picked by many preseason polls to win the Patriot League and earn an NCAA tournament berth...
Other proposed missile technology defenses would be far too costly to install in every city of every state--and there's no guarantee that missile technology will work. The example of the Patriot missile merely diverting a Scud into a U.S. Army base underlines the irrationality of SDI. Most nuclear missiles discharge their war-heads (and decoys) long before entering the range of ground-based missiles, making defense systems impotent in a low-altitude nuclear confrontations...
This glorified Patriot missile program would afford limited protection in case a renegade government or terrorist cell launched a nuclear missile. America could share the technology and its costs with U.S. allies...