Word: launch
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Making Cold War was a formidable task, requiring a team of about 50 people who compiled 1,100 hours of archival film and conducted some 900 hours of interviews. The effort was rewarded in finds like footage of a rocket exploding on its launch site in Siberia. KGB film was obtained showing the arrest of CIA agents named by Aldrich Ames, and these are some of the most startling scenes in the series. Finding interview subjects was also arduous. Senior researcher Svetlana Palmer tracked down some people from old books that mentioned heroes of socialist labor. Then...
...last Friday, on the eve of Obuchi?s summit with Bill Clinton, his chief cabinet secretary abruptly canceled a meeting with U.S. Ambassador Thomas Foley in Tokyo. The cancellation may have been partly in response to what Tokyo sees as a rather flaccid American response to North Korea?s launch of a missile over Japan two weeks...
Quezi Botchwey, African development director for the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the newly-created Harvard Center for International Development (HCID), contacted Mandela and his wife Graca Machel, former first lady of Mozambique, to help publicly launch HCID's Emerging Africa Research Initiative...
...should help to refocus the thinking of policymakers in Washington. It is light-years ahead of its predecessor, the Nodong-1, a one-stage rocket with a range of up to 620 miles. Multiple-stage vehicles require expertise in guidance systems and other tricky technology. Thus last week's launch means the North is a step closer to building intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the mainland U.S., according to Richard Speier, a Carnegie Foundation consultant and former missile proliferation expert at the Pentagon...
...specific and credible." The issues seem plain. "These ads were produced and designed by the campaign media consultants," says Common Cause president ANN MCBRIDE, pointing out that "it's on the public record that Clinton was very much involved in them." Reno watchers believe she will soon launch a formal 90-day inquiry into the Democrats' use of issue-advocacy ads to promote the ticket, and the betting inside Justice is that she will ultimately seek an independent counsel. If that happens, officials say, the mother of all IC probes could result, enveloping Clinton and Gore and even Republican standard...