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...Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972--one of the first major agreements of the Cold War--actually aimed to keep both the Soviet Union and the U.S. vulnerable to nuclear attack by forbidding the development of defensive systems. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the same year, which capped the number of weapons allowed each side, set the balance of destructive power at a fixed level. In 1986, two great dreamers, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, met in Iceland with the aim of total nuclear disarmament. The duo failed, but their talks set the stage for the 1987 Intermediate-Range...
...thrilling fourth set saw 24 ties and eight lead changes alone. In the fifth set, Harvard rallied back from a three-point deficit to even things up at 6-6, but the persistent Violets were able to take advantage of Crimson attack errors to hold on for its first Hay Division victory of the season...
...freshman counterpart Rob Lothman set career highs with 67 assists and five block assists for Harvard. Sophomore Matt Jones led the game with 26 kills, and co-captain Erik Kuld added 24. Rosier finished with 13 kills and just one error, good for a team-best .706 attack percentage. He also had four block assists...
...Back in Germany, the attack served as a stark reminder of the dangers facing German troops in Afghanistan. The latest deaths bring the number of German soldiers killed in the NATO-led mission to 39 since the Afghan invasion of 2001. For Germany's new Defense Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who cut short a holiday in South Africa to fly home following the attack, it marked the first time he had to offer condolences to the relatives of fallen soldiers - a grim task for a young, up-and-coming minister. While expressing his deep regret for the deaths...
...NATO Military Committee, accused the government of "ignorance regarding the military's needs," especially when it comes to manpower and equipment. Likewise, Reinhold Robbe, the outgoing parliamentary ombudsman for the armed forces, told the Bild newspaper on Tuesday that members of the paratrooper unit that came under attack in Kunduz had previously complained to him about their "patchy" training. "Drivers are being deployed who are not properly trained on armored vehicles until after they arrive in Afghanistan," he said. Germany's Armed Forces Association has also complained about the shortage of military helicopters and vehicles in Afghanistan, saying that German...