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...founded his factory in 1884 at the height of the Belle Epoque, world travel was booming, so ocean-liner fittings naturally were a no-brainer. Soon Piaggio was outfitting luxury trains and car engines too. But when World War II began, he shifted his business to passenger airplanes and bombers???a risky move, because the military importance of his factory made it a prime target. Piaggio's outfit was bombed, and the family lost everything. It wasn't until Rinaldo's son Enrico took over after the war that the Vespa was born...
Because of that technological advantage?and the U.S. lead in long-range bombers???Nixon agreed to grant the Russians numerical superiority in launchers in the SALT I agreements. At the time, the U.S. wrongly believed that the agreement might break the Soviet momentum in missile advances by setting a five-year ceiling on the number of offensive missiles each side can have. The U.S. was limited to 1,054 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS), 44 missile-launching submarines and 710 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). The Soviets were permitted 1,618 ICBMs?91 more than they now have?...
...gain a new foothold in Africa by backing the likely winner) were soon providing Nigerian military commanders with every kind of weapon they wanted. Automatic rifles and endless rounds of ammunition, heavy artillery, mortars, rockets, grenade launchers, antiaircraft guns, Czechoslovak Delfin jets, Russian MIGs and Ilyushin 11-28 bombers???Nigeria ordered and got them all. The result was an unhappy precedent for Africa: the Nigerian conflict became the first African bush war fought with modern weapons...
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