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Like the sports bar, the recently renovated ice rink upon which the team played contrasted greatly with the rest of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The team took the ice at the former training site of the 1984 Soviet ice hockey team, who lost in the gold medal game to the upstart Americans...
...KERRY: He wants to expand funding for the U.S. program that eliminates stockpiles of nuclear material in the former Soviet Union so that the cleanup can be completed within four years. At the current rate of funding, experts estimate, it would take until 2018. Kerry says he would open direct talks with North Korea to supplement the ongoing multilateral ones. He wants the U.S. to take a more active role in stopping the advance of Iran's nuclear program and push for further international sanctions against Iran if necessary...
DIED. PAUL NITZE, 97, formidable diplomat and negotiator who was one of the principal architects of America's cold war policies toward the Soviet Union; in Washington. Erudite, brash and sometimes irritable, he worked for Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, helping to instigate the postwar Marshall Plan and, in 1950, writing a key paper that urged a U.S. economic and military buildup to "frustrate the Kremlin design of a world dominated by its will." Yet this early cold warrior became better known for his later efforts at conciliation, most notably a famous "walk in the woods" near...
...months ago. "Where's our strategic plan? Where's the NSC-68 for the war on terror?" He was referring to the famous 1950 National Security Council memo in which Nitze, who died last week at the splendid age of 97, proposed a strategy for confronting the Soviet Union. But the expert was also remembering, with anger and nostalgia, an era that started with Pearl Harbor and ended with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, when strategic thinking in the priestly realms of foreign and economic policy was unpolluted by short-term partisan politics, when words like intellectual and realism...
Paul Nitze's NSC-68 was a rigorous reaction to a perceived crisis. Communists had taken over Czechoslovakia in 1948 and China in 1949; the Soviets had exploded a nuclear bomb in 1949. NSC-68 was assembled over the winter of 1949-50, and it was a careful, comprehensive document, describing the precise nature of the threat and suggesting specific military, political and economic responses. "If there is similar thinking going on now with regard to Islamist terrorism, I am not aware of it," an intelligence expert told me. The Iraq-addled Bush White House has issued no marching orders...