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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...
Gibraltar. Seized from Spain in 1704, this 2¼-sq.-mi. British dependency is still claimed by Spain. Talks over the Rock's future, due to begin last month, were postponed until June 25 because of the Falklands crisis...
...Ground Zero participants may have been more significant than their absolute numbers. From Greenville, S.C., to Clackamas County, Ore., local officials issued declarations of support. In 200 of the 650 towns and cities that held Ground Zero observances, markers were installed, each signifying the center of a 12-sq.-rrfi. circle of total destruction that a one-megaton warhead would wreak. Around the Ground Zero spot in Billings, Mont., a mime group per, formed an antiwar piece; in neighboring North Dakota, 600 people in Grand Forks applauded a speaker's suggestion that the Government dismantle one of the state...
...latest leading contender among basing schemes is "Dense Pack." The idea is to build, say, 200 underground silos on several 20-sq.-mi. parcels of military land. Since only 20 missiles would be allotted to each 200-silo cluster, scores of empty silos would harmlessly draw Soviet warheads. One of Dense Pack's entirely theoretical virtues is "fratricide": since Soviet bombs would arrive in exceptionally tight formation, the first to explode might destroy its "brother" warheads...
...Iranian offensive that altered the course of the war was dubbed "undeniable victory," and it proved to be quick and efficient. In a well-coordinated six-day campaign late last month, Iran's armed forces recaptured some 850 sq. mi. of territory in Khuzistan, all but decimating the Iraqi Fourth Army. Although the Iraqis had expected the operation, they were nevertheless caught off guard. Brigadier General Khatab Omar Najim, commander of the 60th Iraqi Armor Brigade and now an Iranian prisoner of war, told a group of Western correspondents that on the second day of the offensive, his front...