Cruise missile defense cost
to be $50 billion for Russia
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1977
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — It would take
a crash program costing about $50
billion or more for the Soviet Union
to build an adequate air defense sys
tem against the present Cruise
missile. Defense Department offi
cials said Monday.
If the Russians went that route,
United States might have further
need for a new bomber that could
penetrate air defenses, the officials
said. But the capability of the 21-
foot-long, pilotless jet drones can
also be further improved to evade
air defenses, they said.
The drones already present a
radar target smaller than a basket
ball, when they approach head-on,
about 3,()()() to 4,000 times smaller
than the radar image of a B-52.
The officials who discussed poten
tial vulnerability of the missiles with
reporters made the assessment
without waiting for results from
“survivability tests scheduled to
begin next month and continue into
next year.
The tests will pit the Navy’s Tom
ahawk Cruise missile — candidate
for an airplane-launched weapon
that will repace the B1 bomber —
against the Navy's F-14 fighter with
its Phoenix missiles and the Army s
Hawk antiaircraft missile system.
Man versus dog
l niled Press International
—COUDERSPORT, Pa. -Dog
may be man's best friend, except,
maybe, where politics is concerned.
Potter County District Attorney
Jeff Liebert, who is running for re-
election, has a tough Republican
rival — his black Labrador re
triever Amos.
Amos won the nomination in the
May primary as a write-in candi
date.
While the dog now sports a collar
that reads, “Vote for Liebert,’ his
owner said he is unsure “if Amos is
campaigning for himself or me.
was a mj.
lependent
t political
i- He said
the state’s
nployees,
s. He also
suggested
' adminis-
A Halloween horse
The winner of Davis-Gary Hall’s most original
lostume award went to Su Echo (center) over
the weekend. Su Echo happened to be visit
ing friends in the dormitory after Monday’s
Halloween activities.
Battalion photo )>y Jim Hoppcnrath
/0w wage to be $3.35 by ’81
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t nited Press International
-WASHINGTON-President
rter Tuesday signed legislation
sing the minimum wage to $3.35
hour by 1981-a $1.05 increase
I the biggest in history.
Harter conceded during a White
(use signing ceremony the legisla-
n might contribute to inflation
I unemployment, but insisted it
aid be good for the economy and
llions of low wage workers.
Government officials estimate the
1, providing an initial raise to
.65 next Jan. 1, will put an
Iditional $9 billion into the pockets
Isome 5.3 million American work-
cover the next four years.
The bill represented a major
ctory for organized labor. Never
fore has Congress approved a
minimum wage increase as big as people perhaps might not gain a job
ngress to
d Rights
Elizabeth
lary Sub-
endment
has been
ng states ■
ible con-
is March
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Moscow
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circling
runway
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jr 30s.
$1.05 an hour.
AFL-CIO President George
M eany, who attended the first
minimum wage bill signing in 1939,
expressed the gratitude of the
minimum wage workers-most of
whom do not belong to his federa
tion.
“This is a great day' for people on
the lowest rung of our economic
ladder, echoed Sen. Harrison
William. D-N.J.
Carter noted that big business al-
ways opposes minimum wage in
creases on grounds they will be in
flationary and contribute to unem
ployment. “Again there are predic
tions there will be an adverse affect
on inflation, he said.
“There will he some slight in
crease in inflation perhaps and some
that they would have had otherwise.
But the overall impact of this bill is
good."
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