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...idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it.' CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, dismissing Russian concerns that Washington's plans to deploy antimissile defenses in Europe would endanger Moscow's nuclear arsenal...
...Russian public opinion needs little persuasion by the Kremlin to worry that NATO's true aim is to line up bases against Russia. Such fears have been growing since the mid-1990s. Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin had never imagined that NATO would recruit the states of the former Soviet bloc into its membership. But Russia at the time was on its knees economically. It could not afford to fall out with the U.S. and its allies...
...idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it.' CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, dismissing Russian concerns that Washington's plans to deploy antimissile defenses in Europe would endanger Moscow's nuclear arsenal...
...Johnny Carson's favorite running jokes--the staid assistant bandleader dubbed "Mr. Excitement," the "comatose commander" and the "man from bland." Yet Tommy Newsom's beige suits and low-key persona belied his reputation as a vibrant saxophonist who toured South America and the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman, won Emmys as an arranger for TV specials and composed for singers from Kenny Rogers to Beverly Sills...
...form an Iraqi "government in exile," comprised of the exiles and the Kurdish leaders. These exiles would then be installed as a new government once Baghdad fell. My CIA colleagues were aghast. It was as though Defense and the vice president's staff wanted to invite comparison with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when Russian troops deposed the existing government and installed Babrak Karmal, whom they had brought with them from Moscow...