Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself seems about to disappear. After the SALT agreement, the Pentagon began work on a Safeguard site near Grand Forks, N. Dak., but Congress decided that a second installation at Washington, D.C., was not worth the cost. Last year, Nixon and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev reduced the ABM limit to one site each...
...turns out that the Safeguard is simply not up to stopping the Soviet SS-19, a new missile that is able to steer a maddeningly serpentine course toward a target. Thus when the House recently acted on an Army request for $85.3 million for operating the completed Grand Forks site for a year, it voted instead to provide $45.3 million to close up the $5.7 billion installation for good...
...while, it looked like a gold rush-a small army of diggers descending on a 29-acre site some six miles west of Pontiac, Mich. They were led by state policemen ripping up great trenches with a rented backhoe, but among the scramblers were laid-off auto workers, housewives and after-school kids hacking away at the ground with garden tools. One man was seen digging with his bare hands. They were looking for hidden treasure of a sort-the body of former Teamsters' President James Hoffa, who has been missing since July...
Geiger read another Harvard blitz on the next play, and audibled a quick opening run play to halfback Tom Floyd who busted forward to Harvard's 45, the site of the final disaster...
...spokesman Terry Evans said yesterday that the group had met with Deputy Superintendent John Doyle of the Police Intelligence Division and earlier had decided on an acceptable site for the demonstration...