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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President and Chief Operating Officer: N. J. Nicholas Jr...
President: Reginald K. Brack Jr...
...critical moment in the talks, the U.S. negotiators in Geneva found themselves bargaining secretly not with the Soviets but with a delegation of American Senators led by former Democratic Presidential Candidate Albert Gore Jr...
...about the new American proposal, advocates of Midgetman were furious. They included four outsiders whose backing was important if the Administration was going to maintain bipartisan support for its defense policies: Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Adviser in the Ford Administration; Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Albert Gore Jr.; and Democratic Congressman Les Aspin. All had been supporting Midgetman for three years, arguing that it had the twin virtues of being harder for the other side to hit, since it was mobile, and less threatening as a first-strike weapon, since it did not have multiple warheads. The incident...
Twenty years ago, Harvard's Class Day speaker was going to be Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bullets ended his life two months before the scheduled address. At King's funeral, his friends promised to tend to the civil rights crusader's "unfinished business," to ensure that his "campaign for the poor" would...