Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secretary said the "moral difference" between the two superpowers forces the U.S. to develop SDI and bolster its military arsenal to make it clear to the Soviets that "it would be in their national interest not to fight and not to launch an attack...
...Beirut, an Arabic statement siged by the Committee for Soldiarity threatened to launch attacks in the United States...
...struck by the freighter," Deputy Maritime Fleet Minister Leonid Nedyak told a press conference in Moscow less than 48 hours after the accident. "The point of impact was between the engine room and the boiler room and practically ripped the ship open." There was no time, he said, to launch lifeboats, though many of the survivors, among them Captain Markov, were able to hang on to inflatable rafts deployed from the deck...
Rescue efforts got under way immediately. The damaged Pyotr Vasev, which picked up the first survivors, was joined by coast guard launches, tugboats, helicopters, even rowboats. Stanislav Usanov, a motor-launch crewman, said "the people were often so weak that they could not hold on to the hands of the rescuers, so sailors risked their lives by jumping into the water...
...Europe, his mission seemed well-nigh impossible. Not only did he have to create an effective means of commanding a mixture of U.S. and British armed services, but he was also compelled to walk a narrow line between the differing objectives promoted by Roosevelt and Churchill. The decision to launch a huge invasion of Nazi-occupied France, on which the Allies uneasily agreed, implied a shifting of resources from the offensive in Italy, which the British vehemently opposed...