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Among the broad policy issues that may be up for consideration are Harvard's policies on investments in companies involved with President Reagan's controversial Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and whether investments in South Africa should be treated differently than those in other "repressive regimes," Gabarro said...
...just going to say that the boys over at SDI have come up with a real zinger...
...Ronnie: SDI? Is that the contraceptive they recalled...
...technology could cast a terminal gloom over any feasible Star Wars defense system. With a boost phase of only two minutes--less than half that of conventional weapons--fast-burning rockets could penetrate the atmosphere and detonate their "throw-weight" of multiple warheads in substantially greater numbers than proposed SDI equipment could contain...
Reactions at the Pentagon illustrate the pitifully short-term view of world peace held by many pointy-nosed bureaucrats. Even before the report had been acknowledged by the SDI office, one human cog in the military-industrial machine was busy refuting its conclusions. Speaking on the condition that he not be identified, the official ventured that, in his opinion, the Russians would not be able to develop a fast-burn rocket for at least fifteen years...