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The superpower rivalry is so profound that it defies systematic accommodation in all areas except one: regulation of the military competition. The game of nuclear one-upmanship is the outward manifestation of their essentially political conflict. Instead of using nuclear weapons to fight, the two sides have learned to use...
Reagan loved the intrigue. He went through the schedule, got a weather report and recalled that he had left his fur hat at Camp David. He had learned a bit about Iceland, he noted, from Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising, which vividly depicts the island's crucial importance...
We have since learned that he was a Jordanian, Nezar Hindawi. He worked for one of the Arab newspapers published in London. He came to Syria once, a year before the incident, and said he had a Jordanian passport which had expired and which Jordanian authorities declined to renew. He...
The result of the opposition infighting is that Zia will probably not feel obliged to call elections until 1990, when the term of the present Parliament expires. Though she may still rule Pakistan someday, Benazir Bhutto has learned that for a civilian politician in her fractious country, there is no...
Western security agents learned of the diversion scheme last July and managed to catch up with some of the less important gear, packaged as burglar-alarm equipment bound for Turkey. Officials who tailed the hot computer hardware are virtually certain the remainder of the equipment is now in East Germany...