Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to shield U.S. land-based missiles from a Soviet first strike, Reagan last week told the Pentagon that he favors what is known as the "dense pack" method for basing the new MX. Up to 100 MX missiles would be clustered in deep, hardened silos within a 12-sq.-mi. area. Enemy warheads coming into such a small area would cause the first of them to explode the others. Theoretically, some of the MX missiles in the dense pack would survive and be able to launch through the rubble after the attack...
...What a Fellowship Hour," another minister preaches a religion engaged in life rather than in the electronic propagation of plastic virtue. The service is outdoors, in a Chicago park. In the background, a chain-link fence rises as though to shield the playground and the worshippers from the graffiti scrawled on the buildings across the street. As the preacher hums and sways, a police car cruises slowly through the camera's field of view, like a large blue and white fish swimming in a bowl. Most of the crowd is submerged in the music...
...standard, the security was extraordinary. As U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan watched a joint demonstration of South Korean and U.S. military power near Seoul a fortnight ago, they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras...
...m.p.h., about 30 m.p.h. faster than in either previous landing. The ship required nearly three miles of desert before coming to a stop, almost a mile more than before. Even before Lousma and Fullerton exited, inspectors had begun looking over the ship for damage. Though about 50 heat-shield tiles were chipped or missing, the underlying aluminum was only superficially scorched...
According to reliable sources, Suslov had ordered KGB General Semyon Tsvigun to halt the investigations in an effort to shield Brezhnev. Thwarted and angry, Tsvigun is said to have killed himself. Following Suslov's death, the KGB resumed its inquiries and the scandals exploded...