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“It was first put forth in a speech that Ronald Reagan made on 23 March 1983, as he launched the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI).”
“this past week, the former South African defense minister was charged in the murder of 13 people at a prayer meeting in 1987.”
“Five months earlier, Reagan’s defence secretary, Caspar Weinberger, had responded to an advocate of the system that “we are unwilling to commit this nation to a course which calls for growing into a capability that does not currently exist…”
“the massacre was just one event in a series of violent events now believed to have been provoked by a 'hit squad' organized by the former defense minister.”
“North Korea has tested a ballistic missile – the Taepo Dong – and is developing the next stage.”
“Russian government troops stormed the hospital where Chechen fighters are holding more than one thousand civilians hostage, but failed to end the crisis. Some hostages were freed, around 200. But most remained captive.”
“Iran has the technical ability and resources to develop a long-range ballistic missile programme, and has acquired most of the components to do so from Russia.”
“Human Rights Watch says 2000 people were killed.”
“Iraq’s capabilities have been curtailed by the UN, but it maintains a short-range missile capacity and could develop a long-range programme if sanctions were lifted.”
“in May 1993 when his Marine Colonel father spoke against gays in the military to the Senate Armed Services Committee.”
“If the US had a reliable missile defence, then it would be less vulnerable to nuclear blackmail [from “rogue” nuclear-armed states]. But, in that case, a leader such as Saddam Hussein might then threaten to blow up a city such as London or…”
“1990 book”
“Without Fylingdales,” says Daniel Plesch of the British American Security Information Council, which campaigns against NMD, “the system could not work. It is absolutely essential for early warning.””
“We'll hear how he began his first concert with the only pieces the late Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski (VEE-told loot-oh-SWAHF-skee) ever wrote for solo piano: Two Etudes, from 1941, begun as a series a la Chopin, but abandoned after w…”
“A decision on deployment has been promised for this autumn, before Bill Clinton leaves office.”
“from 8,000 to 12,000”
“1,025 Papuan council members”
“between 2,000 and 4,000 army and special forces troops”
“Finally, in 1916, after several of his climbing partners and former pupils had been killed, he persuaded his headmaster to release him.”
“So if Zimbabwe does vote for change, will Mugabe pay any heed? “The MDC will never rule this country. Never! Never!” he cries at rallies. It is as if he cannot contemplate the possibility of losing power, or even of compromise. He talks of…”
“Although India, which with 400 nuclear warheads is the more heavily armed of the two, enjoys a relatively stable government, Pakistan’s military dictatorship is unstable.”
“The US – or so its administration claims – could still be pierced by the missiles of large nuclear states, such as Russia or even China (or France, if it decided it had had enough of Disney and McDonald’s).”
“This strategic line led to the bizarre invitation to Igor Ivanov, the Russian foreign minister, to visit the Pentagon’s high-security room in April to learn the most intimate details of the developing system.”
“Within weeks of his March election victory, Putin moved to consolidate that image by persuading the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, to approve the controversial Start II arms reduction treaty, a pact Yeltsin had spent more…”
“Hitler launched an army of a million at Russia in June 1941”
“in 1993, 12 US rangers were killed, two helicopters downed and the body of a soldier dragged through the streets after a botched raid on a warlord in Mogadishu; and in 1995, 19 US airmen were killed by a truck bomb in their barracks in Dha…”
“after 16 years of military rule”
“four other countries have troops inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
“Their leader was Captain Ahmed Jibril, then about 50, a product of the Syrian army’s engineering corps.”
“In the dawn’s early light of Sunday 3 July 1988 [...] the USS Vincennes was at war. [...] lightly armed Iranian fast patrol boats were attacking neutral tankers [...] By midday, the missile cruisers had already felt obliged to swat a coupl…”
“Under American pressure, the World Food Programme handed over $12m in food to the Thai army to pass on to the Khmer Rouge”
“He revealed that the SAS was training the Pol Pot-led force.”
“Jane’s Defence Weekly reported that the British training for the “non-communist” members o”
“A second test came in February 1965, when several American soldiers were killed in two Viet Cong attacks on US army bases in South Vietnam.”
“Within three weeks, he launched Operation Rolling Thunder, an air offensive that lasted until 1973, and sent the first ground troops to Vietnam.”
“His targets range from the United States Navy and its plans to make use of the live bombardment site off Cape Wrath in Sutherland, to Glasgow City Council whose closure of the disabled lavatories in Peel Street he deplored.”
“In 1941, he joined the merchant navy and began a bizarre odyssey that was to last almost a quarter of a century.”
“In the nine months since Nato triumphantly marched into the benighted territory”
“there were some 370 non-governmental organisations which had set up shop, alongside some some 30,000 Nato forces”
“One year after Nato liberated it, Kosovo, they say, is on the mend.”
“On the last count, there were some 370 non-governmental organisations which had set up shop, alongside some some 30,000 Nato forces.”
“The factory was in Sudan. It was destroyed by Tomahawk cruise missiles in September 1998.”
“If the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Centre (DVLC) can be in Swansea, why not headquarter the British army in Catterick instead of Aldershot?”
“It has now become a commonplace to point out that Putin was boosted from obscurity to unchallenged power largely by virtue of the Chechen raids on Dagestan in the summer; the raids allowed the once rambunctious Russian army to gain glory i…”
“Indeed, the economics of the industry are shaped by political and military imperatives – as shown by the revelation that BNFL has joined the American defence conglomerate, Lockheed Martin, in a consortium to run the top-secret atomic weapo…”
“led by Brian Keenan, the dominant military figure on the Army Council”
“it immediately sparked rumours of an imminent military coup, and people thought the moment had come the following month when the city was hit by a four-hour blackout”
“for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance. We must conceal our abilities and bide our time”
“roughly one in five of those sleeping rough ended up on the streets after leaving the armed forces with nowhere to stay.”
