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...Tomahawk tests go awry
...launch was textbook perfect. The 21-ft.-long unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile arched gracefully away a week ago Sunday from the destroyer U.S.S. Merrill, stationed off the California coast near San Clemente Island. It sped toward its target in Tonopah, Nev., 375 miles away but, to the chagrin of the Navy, never made it. The air-breathing projectile began behaving erratically above sparsely populated regions of Southern California and crashed harmlessly into Los Padres National Forest...
...below. It was the fourth such accident since mid-1979 along the ten-mile-wide test-flight path, one that happens to come within ten miles of Ronald Reagan's ranch. But the Pentagon says that the test results, on the whole, are not worrisome: of the 81 Tomahawk flights so far, 61 have gone according to plan-a respectable percentage...
...were close to nil. Instead, the compromise on which he and Kvitsinsky agreed called for Moscow, most significantly, to shrink the European SS-20 force from 240 to 75. In return, the U.S. and NATO would cancel the deployment of the Pershing II and cut the number of planned Tomahawk cruise-missile launchers from 116 to 75. Each SS-20 carries three warheads, while each cruise-missile launcher holds four Tomahawks. Thus, the U.S. would have been left with a one-third numerical advantage in intermediate-range land-based European warheads...
...Canceling U.S. plans to deploy intermediate-range Pershing missiles and Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe if the Soviets agree to dismantle the SS-20 missiles in place and targeted on Western Europe, an idea already broached at talks in Geneva...