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...committee of prominent scientists co-chaired by a Harvard professor has revised its report on the feasibility of the laser weapons that will be used in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) after the Defense Department refused to allow publication of the lengthy document, committee members said yesterday...
Originally scheduled to be published in the January issue of the journal of the American Physical Society, "Reviews of Modern Physics," the report was held up when the SDI office classified several sections of the document...
Physicists on the 18-member committee, which is sponsored by the American Physical Society and whose co-chairman is Gade University Professor Nicolaas Bloemborgen, said that their revised report should clear the SDI office's review process...
...members of the current crew, Mitch Daniels, resigned over the weekend. As always, the President is detached from the details of policy and reluctant to crack heads. As a result, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger continue to battle inconclusively about early deployment of SDI while some Cabinet members whisper, unavailingly but unrestrainedly, about a palace revolt against Chief of Staff Donald Regan. One White House official compares the President's role in this bickering to a "king in his declining years when all the barons start jockeying...
...more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative; he is merely its most ardent spokesman. Surely the scientists and military executives who think SDI feasible cannot all have been transfigured by the dazzle of show business. Reagan, Wills maintains, "believes that terrorists will stay away from jet planes if America acts like a cowboy." But not all shows of force are showdowns at the O.K. Corral...