Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recently I attended a conference on "New Trends in Missiles Systems and Technology," in the Howard Johnson's Hotel in Boston. I was allowed to make a brief but important talk to the group of arms contractors and top military officials who had gathered there to discuss technical trends and government's purchasing plans...
...brief, in order to avoid a head-on collision we have to collaborate with our political enemy even while competing assertively...
Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe watched. The delegates there from the states kept their hats on to demonstrate civil ascendancy. Washington's farewell took about three minutes and the response from Thomas Mifflin, president of Congress, was just as brief. A snowstorm was on the way and Washington, his saddlebags packed with presents for the children at Mount Vernon, wanted to be home on Christmas Eve for the season of peace on earth. Seven years of war were over at last...
...Geneva last week as U.S. negotiators at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) filed into the headquarters of their Soviet opposite numbers, across the Avenue de la Paix from the Palais des Nations. Inside the Villa Rose, Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov greeted the Americans with a brief statement. "Changes in the global strategy situation" said Karpov, had made it necessary for his country to "review all the problems under discussion" at the negotiations. The Soviet Union, he concluded, was "unable to set a date" for a resumption of the 18-month-old discussions over a scaling down...
...conquerors from the desert or the sea: Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Aramaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, Arabs. During the 7th and 8th centuries A.D., Damascus flourished as the capital of the Umayyad Empire, which stretched from Spain to India. In the 12th century the Crusaders' brief reign came to a violent end at the hands of the warrior Saladin, who remains a Syrian folk hero to this day. After Saladin's death, his domain fell...