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While Haig sees his failure to deliver a settlement in the Falklands crisis as his Waterloo, others have pointed to the Lebanon crisis of June 1982 as his undoing. A book published in Israel has claimed, on the basis of secret diplomatic cables and transcripts of meetings, that Haig gave...
All my experience with the White House public relations machinery notwithstanding, I trusted that the decision would not be announced before the flash cables the department would send to our allies had been delivered. But when I returned to the hotel from my meeting with Gromyko, I learned that Clark...
Initially, the test seemed routine. At 9 a.m., Department of Energy (DOE) engineers detonated a nuclear bomb 1,168 ft. beneath the arid landscape of the Rainier Mesa at the Nevada test site 93 miles northwest of Las Vegas. About three hours later, after instruments detected no radiation at the...
Just as fireworks celebrating the new year were subsiding, the guerrillas struck again at the meagerly defended Cuscatlán Bridge, a crossing 50 miles east of the capital on the Pan American Highway that many considered to be indestructible. Before government forces responded to the attack, the rebels managed...
Earlier this year, Amnesty International, the respected London-based group that monitors human rights violations around the world, released a 65-page report detailing abuses in Syria. The account makes chilling reading. Thousands have been jailed without charge, including former President Noureddine Atassi, who has been held in Damascus' Mezze...