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...least 500 missiles pointing at Taiwan, so plainly the latter has a need for defensive arms. But the country's weapons programs should be left up to the people of Taiwan and not be subject to pressure from the U.S., which is trying to sell us submarines, aircraft and missile defense systems. Many Taiwanese have likened it to being bullied, and they consider the $18 billion price tag for the armaments a protection fee. Is Taiwan getting ripped off? Ting Wai Tu Taipei...
...cloak-and-dagger thriller. When the Nazis occupied Denmark, Bohr remained under virtual house arrest for both his Jewish heritage and his anti-Nazi worldview. He survived this way until 1943 when, days before being taken away, he escaped to England in the bomber hold of an allied aircraft. Eventually he made his way to the top-secret Manhattan Project where his theories were being tested on the making of a nuclear bomb. He soon became a security concern, however, since his philosophical and globalist nature drove him to encourage open sharing of nuclear information with the Russians. Though...
...simply because we cannot—too many troops are committed to fighting Iraqi insurgencies and policing Afghanistan. The only things that the Bush administration can (and must) do are enact economic sanctions, provide technical support to peacekeeping troops, and launch air strikes against Sudanese military installations to disable aircraft the government uses to terrorize Darfurians and provide air cover for ground troops from the European and African Unions...
...pressure Taiwan to shut down such a program in the early 1980s. And Taiwan is in the middle of a spirited national debate on an $18 billion proposed purchase of largely defensive hardware from the U.S., which includes eight diesel-electric submarines, 12 P-3C Orion antisubmarine aircraft and Patriot missile defense systems. Taiwan's doves, and even some of its former military officers, oppose the purchase, arguing that it is too expensive and will only raise cross-strait tensions...
...spark for war came in April last year, when, following two months of occasional raids on villages, African rebels from a group calling itself the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) swept into the tumbledown airport in the town of al-Fashir, killed 75 Sudanese government soldiers, shot up four military aircraft and kidnapped the air force chief, Major General Ibrahim Bushra. The rebel group claimed that the raid was a protest against both the government's neglect of Darfur and an increasing Arab militancy...