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...Administration hopes to spend almost two billion dollars researching an ABM system next year. It envisions a five year program that will spend twenty four billion dollars by 1989 determining whether the concept is feasible. Recent studies indicate that the cost of constructing and adequate shield within twenty years would be $250-$500 billion...
...last week began its own worldwide exercises, code-named Global Shield 84, designed to train bomber and missile crews for nuclear war. The maneuvers will include test firing of two Minuteman missiles from Vandenberg A.F.B., Calif., and the test launching of cruise missiles from B-52 bombers. The Pentagon said that it had notified Moscow of its plans, although the exercises "bear no relationship to any aspect of current international situations...
Emphasizing that America needs to protect its "precious shield" of freedom of the press, Eric Sevareid, consultant and Senior Broadcaster for CBS News, spoke before an audience of 200 last night at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics Forum...
Achieving the degree of effectiveness that would provide a shield for the entire U.S. population, the panel said, depends on the ability to intercept Soviet missiles just after they have been launched, when their heat-emitting rocket engines provide a distinctive radar clue. No such "signature" is available during later stages of deployment, and detection is further complicated after the booster phase, when the rocket fires multiple reentry vehicles, including some decoys. Even if only 5% of Soviet missiles penetrated the space shield, the group argued, as many as 60 million Americans would...
...burden of the evening as much as possible from his shoulders. In this she was assisted, in a diffident but effective way, by one of the other guests, Peter Hannaford, a partner of Michael Deaver's in a Washington public relations firm. It is common for assistants to shield the great men for whom they work from the importunities of outsiders. The tendency to protect Reagan, even to answer questions that were clearly addressed to him, went beyond the usual. As a result, Reagan was a rather quiet dinner companion...