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...state throbs with military aerospace construction. At Douglas Aircraft's plant in Long Beach, the KC-10 tanker cargo plane is rolling out, and at Lockheed's Sunnyvale facility new ballistic missiles for Trident submarines are being built. The first of 18 advanced maritime patrol aircraft worth $700 million was delivered by Lockheed to the Canadian government last week...
...catalogue offers students a one-page description of the opportunities available at Draper, but little specific information on the lab's projects. What the catalogue describes as "guidance control of aerospace and marine vehicles," the annual report lists as Trident I and Cruise missiles...
Draper Laboratory designs prototype guidance mchanisms for MX, Cruise, and Trident missles, all first-strike weapons. Its major customers are the Air Force, Navy and the Department of Defense, Joseph F. O'Connor, executive assistant to the president of the lab, said yesterday...
...Boeing missile offers a cheap, quick way for the Administration to beef up the nation's nuclear strike force. Each missile will cost only about $1 million, about one-quarter the price of a Trident submarine-launched ICBM. The use of available technology means that the first missiles will be delivered next September...
...Trident's officers immediately suspected that the Salem's sinking might not have been an accident; for one thing, the oil spillage was unusually small for a fully loaded tanker of that size. Then a talkative Tunisian crew member leaked the story to Senegalese authorities and new information quickly came to light. Detained in Dakar on charges of water pollution, Captain Georgoulis claimed that his ship's log had gone down with the ship. Local police, in piecing together the details, however, learned there was a 30-hour gap from the time of the first "mysterious explosions...