European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18  january 1981 major decision on my awaits Reagan by Drew Middleton new York not president Rea Gans first major decision on arms procure ment will involve the future of the my Mobile missile recent reports on soviet nuclear the vulnerability of the present american land based missile and the scope and intensity of a debate Over the my missiles All underline the need for an Early air Force officers familiar with the pro Gram believe that after reviewing the claims of competing sea based and landed played systems ordering some adjustments of the present my will approve the one reason for their belief is the Contention that none of the other systems advocated by opponents of the such As sea launched or land based Mobile offers the soviet Union the Prospect of verifying american strategic weaponry by space satellites or other verification by such Means is one of the foundations of the strategic arms limitation the soviet Union has rejected onsite inspection of its nuclear a senior air Force officer pointed out that All alternative missile Basing systems pro posed by critics of the my program Are unverifiable without onsite Mobile missiles roaming a Highway net work aboard huge trucks can be a thousand missiles capable of a sea launch can be put on ships ranging in size from a destroyer to an aircraft Carrier and remain undetected until brought out for the Assumption in defense department circles is that if the United states opted for a strategic nuclear Force based in part on unverifiable there would be no Chance for another round of strategic arms Neotia they the russians would expand their Mobile missile one of now is the developed in the mid1970s for deployment either As a Mobile weapon or in the is the soviet unions primary intermediate ballistic now deployed in the Western regions of the soviet is a two stage version of the during negotiations for the second strategic arms signed but not the soviet delegation agreed not to deploy the senior officers at the Pentagon fear that should the United states adopt a program including unverifiable Mobile intercontinental ballistic the russians would deploy ss16s Long before we Are Able to have a Mobile missile of our own in Many specialists also argue that the deployment of unverifiable missiles could Lead to an increase in International to each Side has a fairly accurate idea of where the others missile launchers sea and air Are situated and the number of missiles this would also be True of the my it is now even if the United states were to disclose the approximate number and Sites of the mis Siles in he the soviet Union would be unlikely to accept such the Cost of the my now estimated at the complexity and size of the construction required and its unpopularity in Utah and the two states where most of the system would be have promoted interest in other icbms each of it is would be cheaper and ultimately less vulnerable than the air Force contends that the my prom v f pfc 6ack Bufett Vou to Louft i who cares Acour that 8areuy to Home in the uses High survivability in a nuclear this would be achieved by the continuous shifting of the 200 advanced missiles from one to an other of the thinking is that the soviet Union would have Only 1 Chance in 23 of knocking out the missiles because they would not know at which of the potential targets the missiles would an alternative system has the Blessing of Melvin who was Secretary of de sense under president Richard Laird advocates spreading intercontinental missile forces across the oceans in vessels ranging from major combat ships to fast Mer chant depending on we might want to build Many More icbms ships than so that we could have a lot of decoys at sea along with the missile Laird wrote last year in readers a variant of this idea is the launching of missiles from seagoing this is the outcome of the Hydra carried out by the Navy nearly 20 years ago under the direction of John now drains project Calls for the waterproofing of a encapsulated missiles that Are made buoyant through Basic design or attach ment to As a missiles propulsion sys tem reaches full it rises once Clear of the operates like a land launched discussion of the feasibility of the Hydra system has focused attention on an important technological difference Between american and soviet submarine launched ballistic mis Sile the soviet Union prefers liquid fuelled mis Siles Over the solid fuel missiles used by the United soviet missiles Are buoyant and Are simply floated to the surface by their submarines and american missiles must be fired out of their submarines by Gas Laird argues that under the soviet submarines need not Rise to vulnerable Depths to As must those of the United another sea alternative is the deployment of missiles in Small submarines off the Atlan tic and Pacific coasts and perhaps in the great lakes As supporters of this system contend it would be cheaper than the the View among qualified sources in the air Force is that it would be More that it would be impossible to Man the and that in wartime the submarines would be vulnerable to nuclear across 1 source of Linen 5 african nation 9 exist 12 Wash 13 hawaiian port 14 tibetan Gazelle 15 sign 16 Paradise 17 beast of Burden 18 mexican Coin 19 oedipus 20 Roentgen Gram 21 common value 23 Frozen dessert 25 recklessly 28 arteries 32 a mental deficient 33 put into words 34 to sorial artist 36 envoy 37 lyricist Gershwin 38 transgress 39 crazy 42 Bounder 44 in addition 48 utilize 49 Circle 50 ache 51 Meadow 52 princely italian family 53 Sharpen 54 Distant 55 move 56 French River Down fall heavily 2 Rich cloth 3 the Birds 4 fear of foreigners 5 fruit tree 6 secrete 7 word blindness 8 russian River solution time 22 124 answer to yesterdays 9 seaweed substance 10 Ponselle 11 comfortable 20 copying process 22 Amend 24 lid 25 Cut of meat 26 Ohio College town 27 title of respect 29 Pedros aunt 30 perform 31 perceive 35 social bigot 36 accounts Book 39 chasm 40 on the water 41 equipment 43 versus 45 its capital is Vientiane 46 qua non 47 unique person 49 in Law crossword 124 Ann land ers Dean Ann Landers your answer to the 16yearold girl who was hellbent on having sex and wanted to know the Safe Days of the month proves that there Are Many people in this country including you who Are completely ignorant when it comes to the subject of natural family plan a woman does not have to have regular periods right on the Dot in order for this approach to the symptom Thermal method of natural family planning involves charting the temperatures and observing the mucous pattern in each Cycle to determine a to mans Fertile and infertile times within each some women can even pinpoint the Day of ova those desiring to avoid pregnancy need Only to refrain from Intercourse during the Fertile natural family planning is an Art and As such hospitals conduct classes in the symptom Thermal method which involves nothing More than mucous and Unwor ried in Maryland dear joyous i am printing your letter for the Benefit of those who May be but i am not advocating the meth i dont want a blizzard of letters in four months i am pregnant and its All your my authorities Tell me the symptom Thermal method does in deed but it requires careful charting and record most women need a simpler method and one that does not require abstinence during certain dear Ann Landers i have a Friend who is a she is very sensitive and i dont want to Hurt her but she needs to be told her manners Are we have dined together Many and it is All i can do to keep from when she has trouble getting food onto her Fork she uses her Finger As a e also she has this terrible abit of running her Index Fin Ger around the inside of her Mouth and Gums to free up food that has lodged it is sick i must say something or re fuse to Dine with her weak stomach in dear weak stomach meet the Challenge Tell the just As you told that her table manners kill your Appe and if she wants to continue to Dine with you she will have to clean up her act if the criticism is interpreted As an insult the loss will be you will at least have tried to help dear Ann Landers please Settle an i say when a person Calls on the Telephone and asks to speak to someone in the it is rude to who is calling this is the same As screening a Call which even big for whom i work downtown does not what do you Ann feuding in Flushing dear flush you the person who places the Call should identify himself at Sample this is Helen Penny May i speak with Gottlieb if he fails to identify himself the person who answers the phone has every right to May i Tel him who is calling