Word: trident
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McIntyre was an extremely cautious Senator, hesitating before opposing the White House even when it was in Republican hands. On the Armed Services Committee, he supported military aid to Saigon during the Viet Nam War. But he also favored trimming expensive new weapons programs like the Navy's Trident missile...
...surprise Soviet attack. For this reason there is little opposition to modernizing the strategic submarine fleet by building 14 Tridents, at a cost of about $1.2 billion each. The current budget, in fact, provides $2.9 billion for the Trident program...
...Even more startling are the cost overruns of new ships still in production. The projected price of a Trident missile-firing submarine, for example, has shot from $793 million to $1.2 billion in the past three years, while that of the Vinson nuclear-powered carrier has climbed from $973 million to $1.3 billion in five years...
...Soviets have been building steadily and have now reached what Carter called "functional equivalence" with the U.S. If this continues to the point where it clouds "the clear invulnerability of our strategic deterrent," said the President, he will not hesitate to order "fullscale deployment and development" of an advanced Trident II submarine-launched missile and the M-X missile system. The M-X would make land-based ICBMS elusive targets by moving them through underground tunnels...
What were some of the highlights of tournament fever? Well, there was Gene Banks, standing on the shoulders of fans, with scissors in one hand cutting down a net, and Murrah's trident in his other hand, waving menacingly in the direction of the NCAA finals in St. Louis next weekend...