Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April the President must choose a multibillion-dollar plan for modernizing the nation's land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. Though dozens of basing modes and several new missiles have been considered, only two expensive mobile missile systems are really in the running: the rail-carried, multiwarhead MX and the truck-transported, single- warhead Midgetman. Bush's wisest course might be to deploy neither...
...Soviet Union, not the U.S., that has a real problem with the survivability of its nuclear forces, since as many as 55% of its warheads are concentrated in vulnerable land-based silos. That explains why Moscow has developed the rail- mobile SS-24, which carries ten warheads, and the truck-carried SS-25 single-warhead missile...
Another heavy blow in the '80s was deregulation of rail, truck, bus and airline service, along with the breakup of the Bell system. These changes permitted corporations to abandon service or increase rates in thousands of small towns. H.E. ("Ned") Valentine, owner and editor of the Clay Center Dispatch (circ. 3,800), finds the outcome ironic: "Both Presidents Carter and Reagan espoused small-town American values. Both were admired for it. But Carter's deregulation program, amplified by eight years of Reagan, has taken its toll here...
...emergency shipments of spare parts. Although the town's cooperative grain elevator still has access to a working railroad spur, weeds surround the tracks. Reason: the Kyle railroad has added a $750- per-car surcharge to the standard rate, forcing the cooperative to haul its grain 17 miles by truck to a main railroad line...
...indirect costs of deregulation are adding up. Moving grain by truck instead of rail increases the rate at which highways and bridges are being degraded. Says Tierce: "In the long term the public is going to pay the price, and rural America will pay a terrible price...