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...ships, may step up its efforts to ease out the Russian military presence on its soil before 2017, when the current leasing treaty for bases expires. And the bloodshed in Georgia may spur Ukraine to intensify its own efforts to put its national security under the NATO umbrella. The former Soviet satellites already in NATO will also most likely respond to the display of Russian might in Georgia by forgoing their own misgivings about deploying U.S. missile defenses and other facilities on their soil...
...intervening 112 years, the coveted awards have been rectangular, ridged, doughnut-like, gilded and--for the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games--shaped like an amorphous blob. At the 1900 Paris Games, some events forwent medals in favor of prizes: one pole-vault runner-up won an umbrella...
...State Department designated the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a terrorist group. Concrete information on such groups is hard to come by. The consensus is that a small group of separatists - probably fewer than 40, according to Gunaratna - is being trained under the ETIM umbrella in the tribal areas of Pakistan that line the 1,300-mile (2,092 km) border with Afghanistan. ETIM is the only group that is capable of carrying out an attack in China in the next few weeks, says Gunaratna, who heads the Singapore-based International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research...
...order to preserve funding for SDI, the Administration will have to determine more precisely what role Star Wars will play in the strategic balance. Is it an umbrella against Armageddon, an expensive set of exotic gadgetry to protect missile silos or merely a Buck Rogers fantasy? Could it be the ultimate bargaining chip to exchange for deep reductions in threatening missiles or the catalyst for an arms race beyond the fears of reason? Long before the scientists begin to perfect SDI's technologies, policymakers must grapple with these questions. The answers are essential to the future of arms control...
...Coldplay's Viva La Vida and Rihanna's Umbrella played in the background as Faust mingled and talked with those present, pausing to shake hands and pose for pictures...