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...Dense Pack system. His paper warned that if the Soviet Union tries to challenge the MX with "more powerful and deadly weapons," the U.S. will be able to add more silos near the proposed Dense Pack field and move some of the 100 MX missiles into them, adding a shell-game kind of deception. "We would prefer that the Soviets dismantle SS-18s [which can carry either ten 1-megaton warheads or a single 25-megaton monster] rather than we build more holes," Reagan said. "But we can accommodate either." Weinberger had advised Reagan not to mention this option...
Salem remembers those years as formative. "Having nothing else to do, I used to play basketball outside in the court alone. Often I would be playing and a shell would drop, so I would have to run home. It was a very risky and sobering experience--dealing with death every single...
Nonetheless, recovery has begun. Aside from the gradual revival of commercial life, an extraordinary transformation has taken place in the shattered western section. Every day dozens of bulldozers clear away rubble, and convoys of trucks cart off debris. Shell craters have been filled, sidewalks repaired. The result: West Beirut is cleaner than at any time since the beginning of the civil war in 1975. The Corniche Mazraa, site of some of the war's heaviest shelling and once littered with broken masonry, is well groomed, and the four-lane high way to the airport has been repaved...
Engineering students at the university constructed the aluminum frame and mechanical components, while art students in an industrial design program designed the aerodynamic plastic shell that covers the vehicle...
...care to shell out on deposits that perhaps may be as small as $2,500. Said Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston: "I think it's terrific." Dreyfus, which manages the third largest money fund with assets of $12 billion, reacted swiftly. Just days earlier, it had announced plans to buy the tiny Lincoln State Bank of East Orange, N.J. By making application to the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency for permission to start its own bank as well, Dreyfus sent a signal that it was determined to get into banking one way or another. Investors in the Dreyfus Liquid Assets...