Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maurice "Rocket" Richard, former Montreal Canadian hockey great...
...debate rages over the greatest hockey player of all time. Howie Morenz, the Stratford Streak, has the vote of the turn-of-the-century crowd; Maurice "The Rocket" Richard is the next generation's favorite. There are the Bobbies: Hull, the complete goal scorer, and Orr, with his intangible, but nonetheless real, brilliance. And Gordie...
...that ceiling the Soviets would probably deploy more than 900 MiRVed ICBMS, and in the absence of SALT altogether, they have the capability of going as high as 1,300. The MIRVing freeze would hold the Soviet ICBMS at the number of warheads already tested on each type of rocket. In the case of their biggest missile, the SS-18, that means ten MIR Vs. Without such a freeze, the SS-18 monster could carry as many as 25 independently targetable bombs...
...Soviets' Strategic Rocket Forces have been converting single-warhead ICBM launchers into multiple-warhead ones so rapidly that the weapons will soon be approaching the SALT II ceiling of 820 MIRVed ICBMs. As early as this summer the Kremlin may face a decision whether to pull back or proceed in that conversion. Also, the Soviets might any day test an SS-18 heavy missile with 20 or more warheads. For them to do so would not only make a mockery out of the SALT II freeze on MIRVing, it would also jeopardize the U.S. mobile MX missile -which...