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...reinforce the urgent need for progress, Gettelfinger brought in Steve Girsky, managing director of Centerbridge Partners, who briefed the joint meeting of the Union's General Motors, Ford and Chrysler councils about the situation. "They asked me to explain how they got into this situation and I did," Girksy told TIME. He declined to offer any details of the sobering briefing but said the situation was "grim...
...Gettelfinger indicated that the union also expects the combination of concession and federal aid to prevent automakers from shifting more jobs out of the United States. "We support the creation of an oversight board to make sure the investment stays in this country. We would not support using taxpayer money out of the United States," he said...
...They needed somebody whom they could make out to be a spy. As a Western journalist in the Soviet Union you poked around in areas that were secret. So how do you find secret information? You work through Soviet journalists and try to wheedle out of them what they know. If the secret police wanted to build up the reputation of a newly arrived American correspondent, they would feed him information that nobody else had. The KGB had an interest in building up the Western correspondent, the Western correspondent had an interest in getting exclusives...
...missiles capable of reaching the United States—Russia and China—have cut their supplies by almost 72 percent since the Cold War’s end. The case for missile defense systems was tenuous even during America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union; today, it’s indefensible...
...little return on investment to the United States, missile defense has cost America immeasurably in the diplomatic arena. In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were on the verge of agreeing to a “double-zero” deal in which both the U.S. and the Soviet Union would eliminate their entire nuclear stockpiles—and with them the specter of nuclear war at large. But Reagan’s refusal to surrender his “Star Wars” missile defense shield scuttled the agreement. More recently, the Bush administration’s decision...