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UMass, Harvard's opponents in Saturday's home opener, suffered a 10-0 loss at Soldiers Field in the third game of 1978, but went on to win eight of their last ten games after that. This season, 30 lettermen have returned and the average Minuteman outweighs the average Crimson player by about 10 pounds...
...case, Kissinger said, the American strategic deterrent is now obsolescent because it has been neutralized by the Soviets' own first-strike capability, and it will soon be obsolete altogether as they improve the pinpoint accuracy with which they could knock out Minuteman ICBM silos in the U.S. Consequently, in the very next three or four years, he warned, Western Europe must make a greater commitment to its safety on its own ground, with stronger conventional forces and improved "theater" nuclear weapons. For its part, the U.S. had better develop a new "counterforce capability" aimed at Soviet military targets...
Deploying nuclear weapons on the oval tracks is intended to solve the most serious threat to the nation's land-based strategic arsenal: the possibility of a surprise Soviet attack obliterating nearly all of the 1,054 U.S. Minuteman and Titan iCBMs. Pentagon strategists have long believed that the best antidote to this vulnerability would be a mobile ICBM known as the MX. They had considered underground trenches, which proved vulnerable, and special planes, which proved very expensive...
...feeling returned by many in the Republican Establishment-the party is the tude was responsible for the void. In fact, the silo was part of the obsolescent Titan system, which has been mostly replaced by Minuteman missiles. A mailing prepared for N.C.P.A.C. by Viguerie calls Church "the radical... who singlehanded has presided over the destruction of the FBI and the CIA." Church protests that his enemies are using "the big-lie technique...
Curiously, the Senator wrongly stated last week that the heavy SS-18 missiles are the chief threat to the American Minuteman force. The U.S. land-based missiles actually are most endangered by the Soviets' more accurate SS-19s, which are smaller missiles that have six warheads apiece (to the SS-18's ten). The Soviets have deployed 200 SS-19s and are expected eventually to have 500 of them...