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...shield U.S. land-based missiles from a Soviet first strike, Reagan last week told the Pentagon that he favors what is known as the "dense pack" method for basing the new MX. Up to 100 MX missiles would be clustered in deep, hardened silos within a 12-sq.-mi. area. Enemy warheads coming into such a small area would cause the first of them to explode the others. Theoretically, some of the MX missiles in the dense pack would survive and be able to launch through the rubble after the attack...
...winning. The war, centered in the former Spanish Sahara to the south of Morocco, pits Hassan's armed forces against the guerrillas of the Polisario Front. The rebels, who are supported by Algeria and Libya, hope to create an independent state in the barren, 103,000-sq.-mi. territory...
Gibraltar. Seized from Spain in 1704, this 2¼-sq.-mi. British dependency is still claimed by Spain. Talks over the Rock's future, due to begin last month, were postponed until June 25 because of the Falklands crisis...
...MI MS Voters were uninspired by an old-style Washington insider who offered no stirring vision. Baker, who would probably be prime minister today if the U.S. had a parliamentary system of government, hopes to run for President again. Even those closest to the congressional brat from Hunts ville feel that his special blend of talents is best suited to the job he now holds. Says one of Baker's close friends: "If you're looking for a guy with a banner to lead the country, that...
...latest leading contender among basing schemes is "Dense Pack." The idea is to build, say, 200 underground silos on several 20-sq.-mi. parcels of military land. Since only 20 missiles would be allotted to each 200-silo cluster, scores of empty silos would harmlessly draw Soviet warheads. One of Dense Pack's entirely theoretical virtues is "fratricide": since Soviet bombs would arrive in exceptionally tight formation, the first to explode might destroy its "brother" warheads...