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While the Pentagon tries to build the U.S. a perfect shield, it is hard at work trying to overcome Soviet defenses. In the late '60s the U.S. developed the MIRV (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle) to saturate Soviet antimissile systems. Now that the Soviets are again beefing up their own defenses, the Pentagon is asking $174 million to develop a MARV (maneuverable reentry vehicle) that could dart and weave to avoid anti- missile missiles. The disclosure of the MARV research is awkward for the Reagan Administration because it undercuts the President's argument that it is possible to build...
Where, then, does the ACSR fit in: as a fully representative body whose judgement fairly reflects the views of the entire Harvard community, or as a shield to prevent the seven members of the Corporation from facing up to the hard questions on divestiture being posed today by so many diverse elements of Harvard society...
...ANZUS pact has been a vital part of its global defense obligations. For Australia and New Zealand, the treaty has provided a measure of protection under the U.S. nuclear shield--even if external threats to life and freedom have seemed remote in the South Pacific. The U.S. is specifically concerned about the growth of the Soviet Union's blue-water navy, pointing to increasing Soviet use of facilities at Cam Ranh Bay, once the main U.S. military complex and naval base in Viet Nam. Says a U.S. official: "We are facing a real problem of Soviet penetration...
...wedding will remain in jeopardy until the woman can be found; having her turn up pregnant or dead after the ceremony would create insufferable scandal. By the time the search for Lee Ann ends, Nat has learned much about areas of life from which his class has conspired to shield him. And with no visible effort, Taylor has spun out a marvelously intricate and fragile web of isolated society...
...superior, Adam Pietruszka, a former colonel and the fourth man in the dock. Like two of his co-defendants, former Lieutenants Waldemar Chmielewski and Leszek Pekala, who testified two weeks ago, Piotrowski said he assumed that the idea to abduct the priest was sponsored by people senior enough to shield him from prosecution. "All the time, I was certain that this cannot be Adam Pietruszka's idea. But it turned out different," he declared...