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...meant to say that bombers and submarines, not their missiles, could be called back. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt, it was a misleading statement. Bombers indeed could be recalled after taking off, but missile-firing submarines are continuously deployed in undersea locations from which they could launch nuclear warheads at the Soviet Union. In a crisis they would stay put awaiting instructions on whether to fire their missiles; their commanders certainly would not be told to head back to port...
...hour cycle, playing easy-on-the-ears music during the day and funkier fare for after-school hours and late at night. The newcomers, though, will have to share this concept too with MTV. Less than two weeks after Turner revealed his plans for CMC, MTV said it would launch its own mass-market channel called Video Hits...
During the debate, as he has in the past, Reagan proposed "sharing" defensive technology with the Soviets. The idea is that if only one side has the ability to build such a system, the other might feel pressure to launch a surprise attack before it was fully deployed. In addition, a defensive system would increase a country's offensive capability by allowing it to launch a strike with less fear of retaliation. Mondale emphasized the objection that sharing the knowledge involved in an antimissile defense and providing a "demonstration" of whatever system the U.S. develops would necessarily compromise America...
...invaders had been driven back. Whatever the real out come, the battle marked a resumption of a ground war that had been stalled since last February. Nonetheless, the encounter did not seem to be the "final offensive" that Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has been threatening to launch for the past eight months...
PREPARE FOR launch, American public; the term "space-age" may not refer to the future any longer. Space travel has advanced so significantly over the last decade that the even the concept of the colonization of space has moved off the movie screen and onto the drawing board. After a surge in the 1960s and subsequent curtailment, space technology now appears ready to move into...