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Bobby Fischer, America's only world chess champion, was a reclusive genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 in Reykjavk, Iceland. Later, he renounced his American citizenship. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Special: Flying anything to anybody Dec 30, 2008
Mr Bout flourished in the interregnum between the cold war and the rise of Islamist terrorism. He was carried along by the same factors the spread of communications technology, the easier flow of goods over borders, international transfers of money with few questions asked that spurred globalisation. (The Economist)
New Sniper Rifles for the US Army a... Dec 30, 2008
At the end of the cold war both US Army and Marine snipers were issued modified versions of the bolt action 17-pound Remington 700 precision rifle. The Marine version, the short action 7. (Suite101.com)
CHINA: USA LOST STRENGTH IN 2008; RUSSIA GAINED Dec 30, 2008
In recent years, the international political structure has transformed gradually from "one superpower coexisting with several other powers," formed after the Cold War, to multi-polarization. The transformation picked up speed this year, with significant changes in the balance of international forces. (The Drudge Report)
The sinister resurrection of Stalin Dec 30, 2008
Tyranny is tyranny; broad generalizations about forms of government are a throwback to the Cold War, and get us nowhere ... The reason for all his Cold War bluster and military buildup is to keep all the oil and gas money out of the hands of the common folk and in the hands of the billionaire oligarchs. (Telegraph.co.uk)
* Documents reveal poor UK defense during Cold War Dec 30, 2008
Documents reveal poor UK defense during Cold War ... The newly released documents show that Callaghan became worried after reading a secret Joint Intelligence Committee report detailing the superiority of Soviet arms at the height of the Cold War. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
The Clash Of Huntingtons Dec 30, 2008
In the wider world, he was best known for The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, which argued that the ideological conflicts of the Cold War years were being replaced by cultural conflicts rooted in ancient religious and ethnic differences. At this point in his career, Huntington had moved from careful scholarly work to grabbing people by the lapels and warning of the dangerous world to come. (Forbes)
Moldovans hope fervently for recognition from Russia Dec 30, 2008
Since the war with Georgia sent relations with the West to a Cold War low, Russia has cooled to Transnistria, reluctant to see this crisis escalate. Some experts say Russia backs Transnistria only to imperil Moldova's prospective bid to join NATO. If Moldova pledges not to join the Western military alliance, Russia might agree to pressure Transnistria to reach an accommodation with Moldova. (International Herald Tribune)
Samuel Huntington, 81, political scientist, dies Dec 30, 2008
He argued that in a post-Cold War world, violent conflict would come not from ideological friction between nations, but from cultural and religious differences among major civilizations ... His focus on religion rather than ideology as a source of conflict in the post-Cold War world triggered broad debate about relations between the Western and Islamic worlds, especially in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks ... In all, Huntington wrote 17 books, including "The Soldier and the State:... (International Herald Tribune)
Time to rethink our assumptions Dec 30, 2008
The new "global war on terror" was endowed with the same coherence as the old Cold War. It was a dangerous and self-defeating set of illusions. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
U.S. Missile Defense Being Expanded, General Says Dec 30, 2008
5 billion since it began with the "Star Wars" concept of space-based lasers in 1983 -- underwent a major redesign in the early 1990s after the Cold War ended. The system, which is still being tested, is primarily now designed to counter a missile attack from a "rogue state" such as North Korea. (Yahoo News -- Missile Defense System)
Liberian President Backs Bid To Move Taylor Trial to Hague Dec 30, 2008
After decades of colonialism followed by decades more of Cold War proxy struggles, deep wariness persists in Africa about the intentions of outside powers. In an interview in her office, Johnson-Sirleaf, who set Taylor's arrest in motion by requesting his extradition from Nigeria, said the case set "a sad precedent of arresting an African head of state.". (Yahoo News -- Hague War Crimes Tribunal)
A day in the life of a private investigator Dec 30, 2008
Raised during the Cold War era, Greenwold was inspired to take up his line of work by watching the television show "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," a Bond-esque series about an international organization of spies ... He keeps display cases stocked with Cold War-era spy cameras, wire and tape recorders, audio recorders and tracking devices. (Chetek Alert, WI)
After 50 Years of Castro's Cuba, an End to the Cold War? Dec 30, 2008
After 50 Years of Castro's Cuba, an End to the Cold War ... After 50 Years of Castro's Cuba, an End to the Cold War. (TIME)
Great Britain and U.S. share common bond Dec 30, 2008
Just as in the days of the Cold War, Russia condemned the attacks on Iraq and withdrew the Russian ambassador from the U.S. Just as in the days of the Korean War and the Vietnam War, China denounced the U.S. action ... Great Britain was our staunchest ally in Desert Storm and in the Cold War ... More recently, Margaret Thatcher, the greatest British prime minister since Winston Churchill, advocated an Anglo-American alliance as a bulwark for freedom during the Cold War. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Provoking Russia Dec 30, 2008
The continuation and expansion of NATO has no justification anymore, after the dismantlement of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. And, unlike during the Cold War, Russia is not defending a political, economic, or philosophical ideology; it has none. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
China plays bigger role in proliferation control Dec 30, 2008
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution after the Cold War confirming the proliferation of WMD threatens world peace and stability. It was on the strength of this resolution that the UN denied Iraq the right to develop nuclear arms. (Xinhuanet, China)
China-U.S. ties at new historical starting point Dec 30, 2008
The Cold War mentality and zero-sum logic should be regarded as irrelevant and outdated ... It's no longer workable to think about or handle the problems of the 21st century with the Cold War mentality of the 20th century. (Xinhuanet, China)
S A Aiyar: IPI gas pipeline, RIP Dec 30, 2008
In the Cold War, MAD was the basis of global security. By analogy, India and Pakistan need a MAD pipeline for security. (India Times, India)
Harold Pinter: in the shadow of a giant Dec 28, 2008 Inauguration Dec 28, 2008 Obamas visit aquatic park in Hawaii Dec 28, 2008 How normal will theirlife be? Dec 28, 2008 Samuel Huntington, author of 'The Clash of Civilizations,' dies at 81 Dec 28, 2008 EU entry helps Romanians and Bulgarians understand each other Dec 27, 2008 My View: Twitter helps U.S. make its point abroad Dec 27, 2008 Modest gains for Bush at Summit of Americas / Sweeping promises, sharp divisions as 34-nation meeting ends Dec 27, 2008 Durbin Downey Dec 27, 2008 Informant: NY Times Ignores Real Bill Ayers Dec 27, 2008 Loving the alien Dec 26, 2008 For Obama, huge challenges ahead Dec 26, 2008 William Kaufmann, 90; MIT political scientist reshaped Kennedy's defense strategy Dec 26, 2008 Where Have All the Neocons Gone? Dec 26, 2008 McGovern Beats Nixon Dec 26, 2008 * Obamas election poses a challenge to the Europeans Dec 26, 2008 Letter from Brussels Dec 26, 2008 Pop gets political Dec 26, 2008 Nice work, NORAD Dec 26, 2008 Sunken Soviet sub needs buyer — or it's scrapped Dec 26, 2008 Apollo 8 celebrates anniversary Dec 26, 2008 An epic year? Historians debate 2008 Dec 26, 2008 Mike Baker: Nuclear Thoughts Dec 25, 2008 Heritage: No More Waffling on Missile Defense Dec 25, 2008 CIA's Lawrence Devlin, born in NH, dies at 86 Dec 25, 2008 Sunken Soviet sub needs buyer _ or it's scrapped Dec 25, 2008 Nothing Personal, You're Just Not My Type Dec 25, 2008 US tracks Santa's Christmas route Dec 25, 2008 SKorean group to resume sending leaflets to NKorea Dec 25, 2008 Electric Boat wins $14b deal for 8 submarines Dec 23, 2008 China's panda ambassadors Dec 23, 2008 China offers pandas for Taiwan Dec 23, 2008 Key statisticsPolitics Dec 23, 2008 Apollo 8: Flying into Space History during a Moment of Public Enthusiasm Dec 23, 2008 Russia's Gazprom flexes muscles Dec 23, 2008 Russian ships visit Cuba Dec 23, 2008 Celebrity deaths of 2008 Dec 23, 2008 ON THE ROAD: Polar route saves fuel, but did Santa clear it? Dec 23, 2008 Cheney Won't Call Bush Best President Dec 23, 2008 That first foreign challenge Dec 22, 2008 Philip Hensher: Please can I be Nigella's friend? Dec 22, 2008 U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Pro... Dec 22, 2008 NASA celebrates Apollo 8's moon mission Dec 22, 2008 Still many good reasons to read all about it Dec 22, 2008 The Zero-Star Hotel Dec 22, 2008 U.S. Missile Defense Being Expanded, General Says Dec 22, 2008 Liberian President Backs Bid To Move Taylor Trial to Hague Dec 22, 2008 Putin's 'Treason Bill' Strikes Fear, Outrage in Russia Dec 22, 2008 Dangerous Foes Await the Obama Administration, Gaffney Warns Dec 22, 2008 Obama increases jobs goal to 3 million Dec 21, 2008 Ignoring the plight in Gaza Dec 21, 2008 * Russian warships make port call in Cuba Dec 21, 2008 * N Korean defectors fly leaflets across border Dec 21, 2008 Who is bigger brand Shah Rukh or Aamir? Dec 21, 2008 Reflections on Rwanda Dec 21, 2008 More Than Three Wise Men This Christmas Dec 21, 2008 The Spy Who Really Came in From the Cold Dec 21, 2008 Quiz Answers Dec 21, 2008 NATO resumes contact with Russia Dec 20, 2008 US military 'to defy' Iraqi pact Dec 20, 2008 Classic Christmas Movies For the Ho... Dec 20, 2008 Doomsday detectives battle nuclear terror Dec 20, 2008 Russian ships enter Cuban waters Dec 20, 2008 Russian Destroyers Pull In To Havana Dec 20, 2008 Sri Lanka Launches Assault On Rebels Dec 20, 2008
This was art from the bomb age, from the era of universal destruction, an age living under the shadow of Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the cold war. None of these events is directly referenced in Pinter s work he drew a proper and sharp distinction between the work of a playwright and the work of a journalist yet the atmosphere of his plays is drenched in the texture of the life they created. (Times Online)
Inauguration Dec 28, 2008
From the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II to the beginning of the Cold War ... Cold War, war on drugs, the Challenger disaster, Beirut and Berlin bombings, and Iran-Contra scandal. (MSNBC -- Politics)
From the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II to the beginning of the Cold War ... Cold War, war on drugs, the Challenger disaster, Beirut and Berlin bombings, and Iran-Contra scandal. (MSNBC -- Politics)
From the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II to the beginning of the Cold War ... Cold War, war on drugs, the Challenger disaster, Beirut and Berlin bombings, and Iran-Contra scandal. (MSNBC -- Politics)
From the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II to the beginning of the Cold War ... Cold War, war on drugs, the Challenger disaster, Beirut and Berlin bombings, and Iran-Contra scandal. (MSNBC -- Politics)
He argued that in a post-Cold War world, violent conflict would come not from ideological friction between nations, but from cultural and religious differences among major civilizations ... In all, Huntington wrote 17 books, including "The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations," published in 1957 and inspired by President Harry Truman's firing of General Douglas MacArthur, and "Political Power: USA-USSR," a study of Cold War dynamics, written in 1964 with... (International Herald Tribune)
Before both joined the EU on Jan. 1, 2007, Bulgarians and Romanians considered each other with almost total indifference, despite being formal allies in the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War and sharing a Danube River border 470 kilometers, or 290 miles, long.. Even for residents of Ruse, at the Bulgarian end of the only bridge connecting the two nations, the people on the opposite river bank might as well have been on another continent. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
I have been frustrated by the constant refrain that everyone hates America and that our embassies aren't "doing" public diplomacy the way they did in the good ol' Cold War days ... One clear lesson that emerged from the Cold War was that winning hearts and minds required communicating in a way that "connected" with people on their terms, whether through film or jazz or jeans. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
The Cold War isn't coming back. Anybody from the left of 20 years ago would never have signed today's agreement. (Yahoo News -- Summit of the Americas)
He also served during Korea and was also involved in strategic air command during the cold war. He was previously married to June Wiltz. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
However, just as in the Cold War, the Communists used fellow travelers only as long as they were useful, then eliminated them, the same would be true for the muslims with the anarchists. -Fellow traveler-someone who helped to enable the actual sabatour, and was sympathetic toward the cause involved, but were not themselves a sabatour or spy. (Newsmax)
The first film was released during the first decade of the Cold War and reflected the concerns of the time: nuclear armageddon. The remake, however, picks up on environmental themes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
From the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II to the beginning of the Cold War ... Cold War, war on drugs, the Challenger disaster, Beirut and Berlin bombings, and Iran-Contra scandal. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
William W. Kaufmann, a longtime MIT political scientist and defense analyst who led an effort to reshape the Pentagon's Cold War nuclear defense strategy in the early days of the Kennedy administration, died Dec. 14 at Hearthstone at Choate, an Alzheimer's disease care center in Woburn ... It also proved to be a basis for the proxy wars of the Cold War. (Boston Globe)
There can be no doubt that as staunch cold warriors, or, if you prefer, liberal internationalists, the neocons viewed the Republican Party, which was led by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, both realists and promoters of d;tente, with unease ... Later, Podhoretz claimed that Reagan was suffering from delusions about the Cold War, indulging in the fantasy of communist collapse ... Her father, Josef Korbel, a former Czech diplomat, was a cold warrior. (The American Conservative)
This was sharp break with the Cold War liberalism of Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson ... All were anticommunist, but anticommunism was no longer the binding force that it had been at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s ... And if this adjustment entailed conservatives making peace with the welfare state and Cold War liberalism, so much the better for right-wing social democrats like Irving Kristol, whose chosen enemy, he avowed, was contemporary [McGovern-style]... (The American Conservative)
Unless something goes terribly wrong, a new Cold War is not about to start ... During the Cold War, Europe was the US first line of defense. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
With the Cold War won, the alliance's main raison d. tre disappeared. (International Herald Tribune)
Only Cate Blanchett managed to tick off a Communist Party as much, for what the Russian Communist party called the ideological sabotage of playing a Cold War robokiller in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But who needs tough talk when we've got our own Avril Lavigne turning pink split ends and a pound of kohl into a battle cry of too sexy by the Malaysians during her Too Damn Sexy Tour (okay, maybe the tour's name had something to do with it too). (Globe and Mail)
It s easy to cover on a lazy Christmas Eve as a family, though, thanks to Google and NORAD. As one users noted on Twitter, this is about the only good thing that came out of the Cold War. Christopher Dawson is the technology director for the Athol-Royalston School District in northern Massachusetts. (ZDNet)
"We remain hopeful that someone will step forward who might be interested in taking over the stewardship of this very interesting Cold War relic," Lennon said. The sub, alternatively designated as K-77, was launched in 1965 as part of the Soviet Northern Fleet. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
There was the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union ... Even without an actual landing, such a spectacular space first would be a huge Cold War propaganda victory. (Carroll County Times)
This year "probably is going to be one of those years like 1929, when the chapter ends and you take a breath before moving on to the Depression and the New Deal," says Paul Boyer, noted historian of the Cold War and editor of a U.S. history textbook, The Enduring Vision ... 1957: As the Soviet satellite Sputnik orbited overhead, it seemed Americans were perilously far behind their Cold War rival technologically. (USA Today)
The world s changed, of course, since nuclear weapons were developed and the Cold War defined the global power structure. But the world is still a nasty place and deterrence is still a legitimate part of our national security policy. (Fox News)
In the end, however, Star Wars succumbed to post-Cold War Pentagon budget cutters. But the nuclear threat did not end with the Cold War. (Fox News)
Devlin, in an interview with The New York Times earlier this year, said he had no misgivings about blackmail and other Cold War tactics, which he called "all part of the game." But he said killing Lumumba would have been disastrous worldwide. Lumumba died at the hands of his rivals in 1961. (Concord Monitor)
"We remain hopeful that someone will step forward who might be interested in taking over the stewardship of this very interesting Cold War relic," Lennon said. The sub, alternatively designated as K-77, was launched in 1965 as part of the Soviet Northern Fleet. (Anchorage Daily News)
(Film historians attribute the obsession to the recent memory of Nazi aggression and to cold war paranoia. The two used Keep Watching the Skies, an exhaustive compilation of science-fiction flicks, as their database. (Scientific American)
9 miles) inside Cheyenne Mountain, this facility was designed to track incoming Soviet missiles and aircraft during the Cold War. But this year they are celebrating a very different mission by drafting in hundreds of extra staff for a special Christmas Eve operation. (BBC News -- Technology)
The Seoul government says 494 South Koreans -- mostly fishermen -- were seized by the North during the Cold War, and more than 500 prisoners of war were never sent home at the end of the 1950-53 conflict. A group representing North Korean Christians, which did not suspend operations, last week said it flew 1. (Yahoo! Asia News)
The Navy and others insisted the project is about far more than jobs, noting that the Virginia class is the first to be designed since the end of the Cold War, and "consequently is designed so that it could operate efficiently in the shallows . . . to the deep ocean," said Rear Admiral Cecil D. Haney, director of the submarine division at Navy headquarters. The subs are 377 feet long, displace about 7,800 tons when submerged, and have a crew of 134, including 14 officers and 120 enlisted... (Boston Globe)
During the Cold War the animals were given as goodwill gestures, to such an extent that the term "panda diplomacy" was coined to describe the exchange of these furry ambassadors. Taiwan is the latest potential recipient, after China offered to send two giant pandas to the island to mark a ground-breaking visit to Beijing by Taiwan's opposition leader Lien Chan. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
During the Cold War, China used to make a habit of sending important dignitaries away with pandas, but most exports are now loaned rather than donated. Lien Chan was treated like a head of state during his visit. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
With the ending of the Cold War, neutrality is no longer the imperative it was for small nations ... The end of the Cold War world has allowed Switzerland to be more active in its foreign policy. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
The massive expenditures on space in the mid-1960s were driven by the Cold War race to send people to the moon before the Soviets did. "We didn't go the moon for Teflon pans or lunar rocks," mission astronaut William Anders said last month at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., "We went to the moon to beat the 'dirty Commies'.". (Scientific American)
But Gazprom's close ties with the government is cause of concern for many observers, such as Edward Lucas, Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist magazine and author of The New Cold War - How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West ... Mr Pushkov says that claims among Russia's critics that it is trying to forge a "gas dictatorship", capable of forcing European customers to bend to the Kremlin's will, is little more than a return to Cold War prejudices. (BBC News -- Europe)
Cuban President Raul Castro met on Monday with the head of a flotilla of Russian navy ships touring Cuba, the first such visit to the Soviet-era ally since the end of the Cold War. Russian Vice Admiral Vladimir Koraliov commanded the flotilla, which included destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and two support vessels. (iAfrica.com)
US chess genius Bobby Fischer, who made world headlines in 1972 by defeating Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in a celebrated Cold War chess showdown in Reykjavik. Aged 64 in his adopted country of Iceland. (iAfrica.com)
For decades, the North Pole routes were scarcely used, partly because of the cold war, a time when the Soviet Union was suspicious about aircraft of any type flying over its far northern airspace. With the end of the cold war, tension abated just as long-haul aircraft became available to serve the growing demand for nonstop travel between cities a half-world apart. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
He then compared Bush to Ford not Reagan or even his father, George H.W. Bush, who presided over the final days of the Cold War. They've both been willing to make very tough decisions that they thought were right for the country and let history judge down the road whether or not they made good decisions. (Newsmax)
The Russians are also eager to reach agreement on three arms-control treaties signed during the Cold War or in its immediate aftermath. The Bush administration has been reluctant to renew the START I agreement on reducing strategic nuclear weapons. (Boston Globe)
The Cold War was manageable, but where does one start today. Gordon Brown has been spinning his own fairy tale of Baghdad. (Independent)
During the Cold War, a vast amount of U.S. funds were spent on proliferation of nuclear weapons ... Since the event of a nuclear attack on U.S. soil always loomed during the Cold War, a strategy for domestic cleanup and containment of nuclear fallout was critical. (Suite101.com)
The Soviet Union had set the pace for space exploration for over a decade in the Cold War battle for supremacy that became known as the Space Race. The Apollo 8 mission also reflected former president John F Kennedy's objective for the United States to land the first man on the moon. (The Age)
He escapes and tries to convince all nations that if they keep meddling with atomic weapons -- this was during the Cold War -- the advanced planets would have to bulldoze Earth. While watching the old film, I noticed something I had missed in previous viewings. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Each Swiss community has a nuclear bomb shelter for its residents, built during the days of the Cold War. With the threat of nuclear confrontation gone with the collapse of communism, the bunkers are viewed by most Swiss towns as nothing more than a deep hole on the municipal budget. (iAfrica.com)
5 billion since it began with the "Star Wars" concept of space-based lasers in 1983 -- underwent a major redesign in the early 1990s after the Cold War ended. The system, which is still being tested, is primarily now designed to counter a missile attack from a "rogue state" such as North Korea. (Yahoo News -- Missile Defense System)
After decades of colonialism followed by decades more of Cold War proxy struggles, deep wariness persists in Africa about the intentions of outside powers. In an interview in her office, Johnson-Sirleaf, who set Taylor's arrest in motion by requesting his extradition from Nigeria, said the case set "a sad precedent of arresting an African head of state.". (Yahoo News -- Hague War Crimes Tribunal)
Unfortunately, it got de-railed from that goal, basically by a group of KGB agents who didn t want to lose the cold war, even when it was over, and who now reign under the guise of democracy. But all the while they grasp for more and more power while stifling the rising dissent with a hardening iron fist. (Human Events Online)
The Russian Navy recently visited Cuba, an old Cold War ally ... They are rabidly anti-American, and Im afraid that, combined with Hugo Chavez, who has benefited from Venezuelas oil wealth, that the old Castro brothers ideology and Chavezs money has made those kinds of ambitions much more dangerous today than at any time than since the end of the Cold War. (Newsmax)
From the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of World War II to the beginning of the Cold War ... Cold War, war on drugs, the Challenger disaster, Beirut and Berlin bombings, and Iran-Contra scandal. (Huntington WSAZ-TV, WV)
In the boldest move in the history of the Cold War, the United States spearheaded an airlift of food and supplies to Berlin, flying in the face of Soviet oppression, confident the Soviets would not fire upon humanitarian aid. Where, one has to wonder, is that moral courage now. (Boston Globe)
Three warships from Russias northern fleet arrived on the Russian Navys first visit to Cuba since the Cold War ... Relations soured after that, but the Cold War allies have become close again, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visiting Havana last month. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Inter-Korean ties have been deteriorating towards those seen during the Cold War since the inauguration of the conservative government of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in February. Lee rolled back his liberal predecessors policy of engagement by linking economic aid to the North with progress in denuclearization, openness and reform, terms highly unlikely to be accepted by the hardline communist state. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The cold war between Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan over their films "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" and "Ghajini" took a new turn with the former proclaiming himself as the biggest brand and saying there cannot be any competition with him. Shah Rukh, whose film "Rab Ne Bana De Jodi" opened with good collections last week, said his film is doing well and there is no threat to his film from "Ghajini". (India Times)
But with the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the end of Africa's role as proxy for U.S.-Soviet rivalries, the winds of change seemed to be blowing in Rwanda. President Habyarimana was forced by both internal and external pressures to open up his one-party Hutu government to other parties and to Tutsi. (Globe and Mail -- International)
I think of the founder of the conservative movement -- and the magazine where I work -- who fought the Cold War and built a freedom revolution. He was a man who was deeply in love with his wife, even after she left this world. (Townhall.com)
It was actually the currency of the Cold War. Spies were the poor bloody infantry of the Cold War ... Cold War spy novels make for entertaining reading, but the more we learn about the nuts and bolts of what actually went on back then, the more we come to understand that truth is in many ways even more dramatic than fiction. (Townhall.com)
A New York Times article published in the waning years of the Cold War said that if you make your way to St. Lawrence Island, also in the Bering Strait, and stand on high ground, you can occasionally see the Russian mainland, 37 miles away. It also said that you can sometimes see the mountains of Siberia from the Tin City Air Force base on Cape Prince of Wales. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
She said the two sides would look to hold an informal meeting of the NATO-Russia Council - a consultative panel set up in 2002 to improve relations between the former Cold War foes - at ambassadorial level next month. Rogozin said his lunch with de Hoop Scheffer in an Italian restaurant near NATO headquarters was a step toward normalization of relations. (Boston Globe)
In a Washington Post column on December 11, George Will quoted Gates as saying there was bipartisan congressional support for "a long-term residual presence" of as many as 40,000 US troops in Iraq, and such a presence for "decades" had been the standard practice following "major US military operations" since the beginning of the Cold War. Those statements evidently represent part of the case Gates, Mullen and the military commanders are already making behind the scenes to get Obama to acquiesce... (Asia Times Online)
Americans looked back on one terrible war while facing another equally sinister one, the coming of the Cold War. More than just escape, these movies offered both hope and example entwined in a season of giving. (Suite101.com)
One problem with this part of the plan, Richelson and others note, is that there is only one WC-135 left, down from a Cold War total of ten. Energy Department officials have called for development of Predator-like drones to fill the gap. (MSNBC -- International)
Russian warships have entered Cuban waters for the first time since the end of the Cold War ... Cuba's communist leadership was closely allied to Moscow during the Cold War, but relations have weakened since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. (BBC News -- Americas)
First Such Visit Since Soviet Era; Relations Warming Between The Cold War Allies ... Relations between the Cold War allies have been warming, to the chagrin of some in the U.S. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano) ... Relations soured after that, but the Cold War allies have become close again, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visiting Havana in November. (CBS News)
First Such Visit Since Soviet Era; Relations Warming Between The Cold War Allies. . (CBS News)
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