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...Soviet territory, to develop ever new types of nuclear and other weapons, the U.S.S.R. was compelled to do so." But then he struck back, saying of his American counterpart: "He tells a deliberate lie asserting that the Soviet Union does not observe its own moratorium on the deployment of medium-range missiles [in Europe]." When he addressed Reagan's idea of space-age defensive ABMs, Andropov became heated. "It is a bid to disarm the Soviet Union in the face of the U.S. nuclear threat," he said. The relation between offensive and defensive weapons cannot be severed, he argued...
...payroll of about 70 people, SHoP Architects doesn't quite qualify as a small firm. All the same, it doesn't compare to design-world immensities like Norman Foster's sprawling operation in London or just about any branch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. But last summer, this medium-size Manhattan-based company won a very big project?the new headquarters for Google, the virtual-world behemoth based in Mountain View, Calif...
...kilometers - basically Scuds. This is often ignored when officials or experts cite the 30 countries with ballistic missile capability." The long-range missiles threatening the U.S. have shrunk by 71% over the past 20 years, he said, and are based in Russia and China. Five nations have developed medium-range missiles over the same period - China, India, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan...
...sense, it's apt that his last film be shown on TV, the medium in which he started his career. Having grown up in the Isle of Wight, he graduated from the University of Hull in North Yorkshire, England, and started writing plays that won him a few awards, before going on to become a TV script editor and writer. After his feature debut, the 1990 comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, there was the low-key comedy Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and Mary-Louise Parker. Then came The English Patient, which won nine Oscars...
...Three of the four teams to finish ahead of them were from the Mid-Atlantic.The Crimson had to endure some unfamiliar conditions on the regatta’s second day.“We had a whole range of conditions,” Kovacs said. “We had medium breeze and light air on Saturday, and then pretty heavy winds, which we’re not too used to seeing on the [Charles River], on Sunday.”The B division team of junior captain and skipper Jon Garrity and junior crew Kerry Anne Bradford finished eighth. Freshman...