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...most publicized plan for deploying the missiles is now nearly synonymous with MX itself and with the controversy surrounding it. Under this $40 billion scheme, the missiles would be wheeled around 200 high-security drag strips scattered over 10,000 miles in the desert wastes of the West. This brobdingnagian shell game is intended to foil any Soviet strike by baffling the enemy: unaware of each missile's actual location, the Soviets would be obliged to target all 4,600 MX shelters to guarantee success. But the drag strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan...
Dillon, S.C. is a classic Southern town--a couple of pretty, tree-lined streets with nice big houses, a bustling main drag, and a dusty outskirts where poor people live, with pavement for a front yard. The back road that connects South of the Border with Dillon used to be the main road, and there are only a few rundown motels and roadhouses left. One, the Stonewall Jackson Motel, seems to have caught South of the Border disease. As motorists leave Dillon, its hand-painted sign implores "Turn Around and Sleep with Jackson...
...third non-Christian Democrat in 35 years asked to form a government. The first two failed. Despite the esteem in which he is held, he was not given a much better chance to succeed than Forlani. Whatever the outcome, though, the new mandate virtually guaranteed that the crisis would drag on, as repercussions from the Masonic affair shake the nation's Establishment...
...meetings drag on, property values come up again and again. A former board of education chairman rises to lament that without "quality schools" only a rich Arab with a harem would want to buy his oversized colonial; a marketing vice president for Smith Corona asserts that home values are directly tied to school quality, and urges the town not to "take a meat ax to the best asset the town...
...often, Shales stings his victims with wit. Investigative reporters who pounce on their prey in ambush interviews are practicing "bonzo journalism," said Shales. "Naturally one is reminded of the old story about the dog chasing cars -what do they do if they catch one? Wrestle him to the ground? Drag him off to the hoosegow?" Shales ridiculed Dan Rather's histrionic foray into Afghanistan last year for 60 Minutes, dubbing him "Gunga Dan," and noting that Rather's peasant garb "made him look like an extra out of Dr. Zhivago." Some viewers still cannot tune...