Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnick free press saturday May 13, 1972 Bridge news by Brian Pauls the second session of the St. Johns club open pairs is scheduled for this thursday night. The Consolation is open to any o n e not qualifying for the finals. Mandel grower and Bernie Melman won the trophy in the Blue ribbon special at Anita s Bridge Centre last week. Sec Ond were mrs. D. Rossen Doug Fisher followed by mrs. M. Shore mrs. M. Averback. Mrs. A. Peters a. Williams tied with mrs. W. Kerr Bruce Mitchell and Jim Berglund Bill Maffey. Mrs. M. Chernick and Joe Lifchus captured the h. D. Sparling trophy in the Portage la Prairie annual tournament april 30. Winnipeg s newest life master is also its doctoral student of longest standing g. Sekhar. Victory in the Manitoba. Unit ladies pairs championship was shared by mrs. Irene Udow mrs. Molly Shaffer and mrs. Hester Peters mrs. Anita Marquart. Mrs. Fran Kerr mrs. Celia Ostrove placed third Fol Lowed by mrs. Julie Moore Lilliand Johnston mrs. Linda Ladyman mrs. Reesa Thompson and mrs. Mim Kopelow mrs. Eve Morton. The men s pairs title was annexed by Alec Tadman a. Mendelssohn. Harry Kopel Harold Johnson deadlocked with Hersh Wolch a. Pauls in the runner up Slot and next came Keith san Diford a. Williams and David Levu Richard Glass tied with h. I Mytryshyn a. Korytowski. One of last year s winners or. Sekhar playing this time with a new partner finished Well Back. V Only one pair reached this la Down grand slam in the men s and ladies pairs events. Obviously the Lack of any wasted card in diamonds in North and the void in that suit held by. South were the factors which each pair who played the Deal found most difficult to communicate. Neither Side vulnerable North deals North s akj8 h j73 d j54 c aks one South s Een added to . Forces Mak ing a total of the. Rus sians Are estimated to have the buildup will continue until the Middle of the decade under programs already under Way. Ten Polaris submarines Are in port today being outfitted with the new Poseidon missile. When they return to sea each will be Able to hit from 160 to More than 200 separate targets with warheads comparable to those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world War. By the time these conversions completed 31 of the 41 . Missile submarines will carry the Poseidon with us independently targeted multiple War leads. One Wing of 150 minuteman i icbms s carrying three War a e a d s capable of striking separate targets has been in stalled. Work has begun on a second Wing removing the sin Gle warhead minuteman ii and installing the independently targeted minutemen in the hardened silos. When the conversion program is completed substituting 55 of the new missiles the total minuteman Force will be Able to hit twice As Many targets Asil could when the missiles were first deployed. The triple warheads being added to the Force Are estimated to have a yield of 170 to 200 k i 1 o t o n s one Kiloton equals tons of int each As much As 10 times the Power of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The single warhead on the minute Man u is even More powerful about one megaton or a Mil lion tons of int. Soon the . Air Force Wal Start arming its strategic bombers with new nuclear tipped Short Range attack mis Sites to help planes blast their Way to their primary objectives r to bit ground targets from a a stance without having to Fly through heavy air defences. A Ingle b-52 will carry As Many s 30 of the new missiles. The number of warheads is. However Only one element in the calculus of strategic plan Ning. The soviet Union has pulled ahead in numbers of com s and is catching up in nuclear submarines. In Addi i o n the soviet Union has passed the United states in Otal megaton age because the russians have larger weapons. By some estimates the soviet Union has nuclear warheads to taling More than 19 billion tons of int in its strategic Arsenal billion tons or so More than the United states. The total . Megaton nage is declining. Since the . Force is designed to strike at Urban and Industrial targets in retaliation it is More important to have Large numbers of Small warheads than Block Buster bombs that can Knock out missile silos. Though the United states has More than doubled the russians in number of weapons russian missiles have enough brute Power to carry Large numbers of multiple warheads. It is conceded the can close the warhead Gap without adding to their missile russians i Force. Date with die Centennial concert Hall thursday May 18 . Tickets available at 23 Kennedy Street the it. 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