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...what they include, but Reagan gave a hint at his news conference. The President recalled that in START the U.S. initially proposed extra-deep cuts in heavy land-based missiles and the U.S.S.R. refused because those silo-fired behemoths constitute a much bigger part of the Soviet than of the U.S. arsenal. Now, said the President, "one of the things that we've made clear to the Soviets is that we recognize there may be differences with regard to the mix of weapons on both sides and we're prepared to deal with that problem, and where perhaps we have...
...giggles and had to ask the chair for an extension of time to compose herself and go on. With an eye to conservatives at home, she has consistently opposed large cuts in the military. When Carter favored a mobile MX missile, she voted for it; when Reagan backed a silo-based MX, she voted against it. In the past year, as her political ambition widened, she has tried to plug the gaps in her knowledge, visiting Central America and the Middle East. In a remark that revealed both her naiveté and directness, she once exclaimed: "I didn...
...ICBM: Intercontinental ballistic missile, a rocket usually intended to be fired from an underground silo in the U.S. or U.S.S.R. that can reach the territory of the other superpower. It is the most destructive of strategic weapons, but also the most vulnerable, since until it is fired, it is stationary and can be fairly easily targeted by the other side. The principal American ICBM is the Minuteman III, with three warheads; the main Soviet ones are the SS-18, with ten warheads, and the SS-19, with...
...reduces the temptation to attack a concentration of warheads in one location. For example, let us assume that both Side A and Side B have ten missiles with four warheads per missile, for a total of forty warheads each. If two warheads are needed to destroy one missile silo, Side A can use half of its missiles (20 warheads) in order to destroy all of Side B's missiles. This would leave Side B totally defenseless and Side A with twenty warheads! This illustrates the great temptation for either side to initiate a first strike. The idea of having just...
...were confiscated last year by the DEA, roughly twice as much as the year before. The Justice Department last year seized more than $100 million worth of property and other assets. Among the diverse booty that must be managed and eventually sold: a jewelry store in Mississippi, a grain silo in Iowa, a floating dry-dock in Hawaii, 123 beef hindquarters in Pennsylvania and 1,700 cases of toothpaste seized in New Jersey...