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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...
Director Ronald Neame (Tunes of Glory, The Poseidon Adventure) has his Nazis parading about like villains in old World War II propaganda melodrama, with delicatessen accents and eyes like hooked fish. Anyone could blow the whistle on Nazis like this. ∎Jay Cocks
...Poseidon Adventure. Who Will Survive? Who cares. Ch. 5, 9 p.m. Color. 2 1/2 hours...
...Richard Lester, a film maker of satiric skill and carbolic wit unsurpassed in the contemporary English-speaking cinema (Petulia, The Bed Sitting Room and the recent Three Musketeers). Lester is also a superb stylist, and he has made Juggernaut into a cunningly engineered entertainment, full of suspense. The Poseidon Adventure, by inevitable comparison, looks like something staged by a kid in his bathtub just before bedtime. Lester has done the calamity number about as well as it can be done. Why it has to be done at all is another matter...
...Clemente to meet with President Nixon, Kissinger stopped off en route to visit the nuclear-missile installation at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N. Dak. There, 150 Minuteman missiles stand at the ready beneath their giant manhole covers, and Kissinger, who as a negotiator handles Minuteman, Polaris and Poseidon missiles like poker chips, had a request: might...