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...Sile de Valera, a former member of the Irish Parliament, Irish Cabinet, and the European Parliament, was a Spring 2008 IOP Fellow...
...European Treaty and the importance for the E.U. to act collectively abroad and together with the United States. “The main reason for this European Treaty is a desire for a more cohesive Europe and a more cohesive Europe in foreign affairs,” Ahern said. Sile de Valera, an IOP fellow and the youngest female member of parliament in Irish history, introduced Ahern, who currently fills the position held three times by de Valera’s revolutionary grandfather, Eamon de Valera. Ahern first spoke in praise of the peace efforts between the Republic of Ireland...
...fellow in 2003, said she is pleased to return to Cambridge to discuss issues such as redistricting, special interest groups, and globalization with students. The other spring 2008 IOP fellows are Bart Peterson, a former mayor of Indianapolis; Lois Romano, a political reporter at The Washington Post; Sile de Valera, a former member of the Irish National Parliament and the European Parliament; and David R. Zwick, founder and president of advocacy group Clean Water Action. The new IOP study groups will kick off in early February. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Polaris. Minuteman III will replace 700 Minuteman I's (currently operational along with Minuteman II and Titan II) in hardened silos. Poseidon may carry as many as ten separately targetable warheads, and Minuteman perhaps three, along with decoy chaff and penetration devices to fool enemy anti-ballistic mis sile systems. Together, they could raise the U.S. single-strike capability to a formidable maximum of 7,500 nuclear warheads...
Offshore stood the helicopter carrier Jwo Jitna and the attack-transport Talladega, each carrying additional marines, plus two destroyers and the mis sile light cruiser Galvston, whose six-inch guns provided heavy artillery support. From the air, two squadrons of Phantom II jets and five squadrons of Skyhawks dropped tons of napalm and bombs on Viet Cong positions. It was a devastating punch, involving more than 5,000 U.S. ground troops; every one of them was needed, for the V.C. were tough and well dug in. "It was almost like Normandy," said one Marine commander. "They fought us from hedgerow...