The World - News from Dec. 5, 1985
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Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said the United States is making rapid progress in its “Star Wars” research program and has achieved several technical breakthroughs. “We are way ahead of where we thought we could be two or three years ago,” Weinberger said in an interview with Armed Forces Television in West Germany. Weinberger, who stopped in West Germany after a NATO meeting, said one breakthrough has been the successful use of lasers in bad weather.
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