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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALTHOUGH no device of war has caused more debate in recent years than the anti-ballistic missile system, few Americans have any notion of what it looks like. Nor are they likely to. Thanks to the SALT agreement signed with the Soviet Union, only two ABM sites would be constructed in the U.S.: one near Washington, D.C., to protect the nation's decision-making center; and the other near the remote town of Grand Forks, N. Dak., to defend the retaliatory might of 150 Minuteman ICBMs targeted at the Soviet Union and China. Only the site in North Dakota...
...zero-have provided natives with the saying: "We have three seasons here-July, August and winter." Finally, at Lakota, you turn right off Route 2 and head north on Route 1 toward Nekoma, once a town of "84 old people" and now the headquarters of the only U.S. ABM site. Suddenly it looms above the featureless landscape like some huge, misplaced Mayan temple, a 21st century monster squatting on the 19th century rural countryside of northeast North Dakota...
...monster it is. The missile-site radar's concrete housing is 231 ft. square at the base and 125 ft. deep; 50 of those feet, including the living level, are underground. Next to the MSR is its own power plant, all underground, containing six huge generators with 17-ton flywheels. The construction, 90% completed, will be finished by the end of 1974. The 7-ft.-thick steel reinforced concrete walls are complete on the outside. Wooden stairs run up on top of the pyramid, out of which stare, one to a side, four empty radar eyes. These "radar support...
...pieces of real estate have ever fitted the definition of no man's land quite so thoroughly as the 21-acre site of Berlin's old Potsdam railroad station. During the war, Allied bombers pounded the place into rubble. In 1945, the ruins became part of the Russian sector of the occupied city and were later included in what is now East Berlin, even though they protruded like a battered thumb into central West Berlin. In 1961, when the Communists built the Wall to close off their portion of the divided city, they did not bother to extend...
...Cambridge developer last week threatened that if plans from the City for the Harvard Square area were not made soon he would go ahead with construction of a Holiday Inn on land adjoining the 11-acre John F. Kennedy Library Center site...